Hot, muggy and downright miserable outside today

Good Morning Augusta

Today we’ll have Fog during the morning hours, then partly cloudy this afternoon. High near 90 ºF. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.  We are currently under a dense fog advisory, but it’s burning off fast.

Tonight we’ll have some clouds with a muggy  Low of 68 ºF. Winds light and variable.

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

Humidity is 99%, the dew point is 67ºF and its 73.1ºF outside.

The wind direction is Southeast between 0.1 MPH and 1.1 MPH.

The Barometric pressure is 30.10 / HPA 1019.3 and falling with a weather graphic indicating rainn.

The UV rating is 1.0 out of 16, Sunrise is at 5:37 a.m. Sunset is 7:49 P.M. Moon rise is at 2:16 a.m., Moon set is XX:XX p.m. and the moon phase is in it’s first quarter. 

The RAW METAR readings from the airport in Augusta are:

METAR KAUG 110953Z AUTO 00000KT M1/4SM FG VV002 19/19 A3003 RMK AO2 SLP168 T01940194

Visibility is 0.2 miles / 0.4 kilometers with no clouds above this thick fog.

We received some spotty rain yesterday but not enough to register on my digital rain gauge.  It’s official now folks, Maine is in a drought.