Clouds, sun and a possibility of rain

Good morning Augusta

This morning it’s cloudy with a few showers developing this afternoon. Our high will be 54ºF. Winds from the NNW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30%.

Tonight it will be generally clear with a low of 31ºF. Winds from the NW at 5 to 10 mph.

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

Humidity is 94%, the dew point is 38ºF, outside it’s 5.9ºC and 43.2ºF.

The wind direction is Northeast between 0.1 MPH and  1.1 MPH, generating a wind chill of 43.2ºF.

The Barometric pressure is 29.82 / HPA 1009.2 and falling with a weather graphic indicating rain.

The UV rating is 1.0 out of 16, Sunrise is at 6:27 a.m. Sunset is 4:17 P.M. Moon rise is at 1:45 p.m., Moon set is 12:09 p.m. and the moon phase is waxing gibbous.  

The RAW METAR reading from the airport in Augusta, Maine where the sun first touches the U.S.A. every morning is: METAR KAUG 091253Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 07/04 A2978 RMK AO2 SLP085 T00720044

Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers with spotty clouds, but otherwise clear.

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

Farmer’s Almanac Philosofact for the day:

 

“If there be ice in November that will bear a duck, there will be nothing thereafter but sleet and muck.”

Speaking of Sleet and Muck – how about that election?  Don’t you just love the media?  They’re whining about how wrong the pollsters were about the results.

Isn’t this the definition of a pollster: “A Pollster is a consultant who couldn’t get a job consulting for anyone, so he hired himself out to second guess elections.”