Mild and sunny later - and 'did ya know'

Good morning Augusta

This morning we have some clouds that will give way to generally sunny skies for the afternoon. Our high will be 47F with winds out of the NNW at 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight we’ll have Clear skies with a low around 30ºF. Winds will be light and variable.

The readings from my instruments outside are:

The humidity is 67% with a dew point of 29ºf, our outdoor temperature is 38ºf and the wind chill is 38ºf.

The wind direction is West between 2.6 MPH and 4.0 MPH.

The Barometric pressure is 30.39 HPA 1027 and rising with a weather graphic indicating clouds.

The UV rating is 0.0 out of 16,  Sunrise is at 7:07 a.m. sunset is 5:37 PM and Moon Rise is 5:24 p.m. with the moon phase being waning gibbous.

The Raw METAR readings from Augusta’s airport are:

METAR KAUG 261053Z AUTO 31004KT 10SM SCT044 04/M02 A3032 RMK AO2 SLP268 T00391017

Visibility is 10.0 miles/ 16.1 kilometers with scattered clouds to 4,400 ft / 1,341 m 

We’ve had 0.06 inches of rain here in the past 24 hours.

Did you know:

Early military aircraft throttles and air/fuel mixture levers (such as those in the P51 Mustang) had a ball on the end of them.  In order to go full throttle the pilot had to push the throttle and air/fuel mixture levers all the way forward into the plane’s firewall. Hence the term: "balls to the wall" for going all-out.

Also during World War II , U.S. fighter aircraft, again using the P51 Mustang as an example, was armed with 6 wing mounted .50 caliber Browning machine guns that used 400 round belts of ammunition that they used during dogfights and strafing runs. These belts of ammunition were folded into the wing compartments to feed the machine guns. These belts measure 27 feet long. Often times, the pilots would return from their missions having expended all of their ammunition on targets. They would say, “I gave them the whole nine yards.” Meaning they used up all of their ammunition.

 

Now ya know.