Wet, rainy and windy

Good morning Augusta.

There is talk of tornado warnings this morning, its been rainy with a lot of booming since 3:00 A.M., so its going to be a wet and yawning drive to work today. Drink your coffee.

This morning it is overcast with a chance of a thunderstorm and rain showers, then a chance of rain in the afternoon. High of 64F. Windy. Winds from the South at 10 to 15 mph with gusts to 35 mph. Chance of rain 70% with rainfall amounts near 0.4 in. possible. 

Tonight it will be clear with a low of 45F. Winds from the WSW at 5 to 10 mph.

The readings from my own weather instruments are:

The humidity is  92% with a Dew Point of 57ºF, Temp is 59.4ºF with a wind chil of 59.4ºF.

Our wind direction is Southwest between 2.0 MPH and 3.7 MPH.  

The Barometric pressure is 29.83 HPA 1010 and falling with a weather graphic indicating rain.

The UV rating is 0 out of 16, Sunrise is at 6:45 a.m. sunset is 6:07  PM and Moon Rise is at 6:18 p.m. EDT and the moon phase is a full moon.

For the pilots out there raw METAR readings are:

METAR KAUG 080953Z AUTO 17009KT 10SM -RA SCT008 BKN090 OVC100 15/14 A2984 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT S RAB0855 SLP104 P0008 T01500139

Visibility is 10.0 miles/16.1 kilometers with Scattered clouds to 800 ft / 243 m., Mostly cloudy to 9,000 ft / 2,743 m. and overcast to 10,000 ft / 3,048 m.

We received rain here in the amount of 0.11 inches so far todayand it isn't over with yet.

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