Less wind and more warmth today

Good Morning Augusta

This morning it is sunny to partly cloudy out there with a high of 64ºF. Winds WNW at 10 to 20 mph.

Tonight we’ll have clear skies with a low of 42ºF. Winds will be out of the NW at 5 to 10 mph.

The readings from my weather instruments in the North field are:

Humidity is 62%, the dew point is 31ºF, its 50.8ºF outside with a wind chill of 46.8ºF.

The wind direction is West Southwest between 7.6 MPH and 9.6 MPH.

The Barometric pressure is 30.06 / HPA 1017.9 and rising with a weather graphic predicting sun.

The UV rating is 2.0 out of 16, Sunrise is at 5:09 a.m. Sunset is 8:02 P.M. Moon rise is at 3:59 p.m. and the moon phase is waxing gibbous.

The RAW METAR readings from the airport in Augusta Maine is:

METAR KAUG 171053Z AUTO 29010KT 10SM BKN100 08/M01 A3001 RMK AO2 SLP163 T00831011

Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers with Mostly cloudy conditions to 10,000 ft / 3,048 m. 

We didn’t receive any rain here in the past 24 hours.

We did, however get reports of up to 8.5 inches of snow up on the border yesterday. “C’mon spring”