Foggy and wet

Good morning Augusta.

This morning it is real foggy out there, partly cloudy with a chance of rain. High of 55F. Winds from the WNW at 5 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20%.

Tonight it will remain partly cloudy. Low of 39F. Winds from the WNW at 5 to 10 mph.

The readings from my own weather instruments are:

The humidity is  90% with a Dew Point of 42ºF, Temp is 43.2ºF with a wind chil of 43.2ºF.

Our wind direction is Southwest between 0.8 MPH and  2.0 MPH.  

The Barometric pressure is 29.45 HPA 996 and falling with a weather graphic indicating clouds.

The UV rating is 0 out of 16, Sunrise is at 7:08 a.m. sunset is 5:37  PM and Moon Rise is at 9:46 a.m. EDT and the moon phase is  waxing crescent.

For the pilots out there raw METAR readings are:

SPECI KAUG 261128Z AUTO 00000KT 1/2SM FG SCT002 BKN045 OVC085 06/06 A2940 RMK AO2 T00610056

Visibility is 0.5 miles / 0.8 kilometers with scattered clouds to 200 ft / 60 m., Mostly cloudy conditions down to 4,500 ft / 1,371 m. and overcast to 8,500 ft / 2,590 m  

We had rain here in the amount of 0.05 inches over the past 24 hours.

Odd weather note: Check today's long range forecast about the hurricane out in the Pacific that has just hit Hawaii. IT is slated to move east to the Vancouver B.C. area, continue to the Great lakes region and then end up over Maine as our weather system for the end of this coming week.

Why are we importing Pacific hurricanes to the east coast? Aren't the usual number of Atlantic hurricanes that rain on us enough?

And another thing – don't you think that California needs that rain a lot more than we do?