Warm and pouring rain this morning

Good Morning Augusta

The clouds are low-hanging and its raining. Go back to bed.

This Morning we have cloudy and rainy periods, its pouring out there as I write this, our high will be around 52F. The SSE winds are shifting to the NW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Rainfall near a half an inch.

Tonight we’ll have mostly clear conditions with lows around  31F. Winds will be out of the NW at 5 to 10 mph.

The readings from my instruments are:

Humidity is 99%, the dew point is 49ºF, outside its 52.9ºF with a wind chill of 52.9ºF.

The wind direction is Northwest between 1.7 mph and 2.5 mph.

The Barometric pressure is 30.04 HPA 1016 and falling with a weather graphic predicting rain.

The UV rating is 0.0 out of 16, Sunrise is at 6:41 a.m. Sunset is 4:09 P.M. Moon rise is at 1:10 A.M. EST, and the moon phase is waqxing Gibbous.

The METAR reading from Augusta’s airport is:

SPECI KAUG 201203Z AUTO 15012G22KT 2 1/2SM RA BR BKN006 OVC011 11/10 A2999 RMK AO2 P0005 T01060100

Visibility is 2.0 miles/4.5 kilometers with Mostly cloudy conditions to 600 ft / 182 ml, and overcast to 1,100 ft / 335 m.    

We‘ve received 0.75 inches of rain so far, and its still coming down out there.