Cold, some clouds and still cleaning up.

Good Morning Augusta

This morning we have partly cloudy skies and an expected high of 12ºF. Winds are out of the WNW at 15 to 25 mph.

Tonight we’ll have partly cloudy skies with heavier clouds for overnight. Flurries or snow showers possible late. Low near 0ºF. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.

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

Humidity is 75%, the dew point is -2.0ºF, outside it’s -14.0ºC and 7.0ºF.

The wind direction is Southwest between 5.1 MPH and 11.0 MPH, generating a wind chill of 4.5ºF.

The Barometric pressure is 29.92 / HPA 1014.9 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun.

The UV rating is 0 out of 16, Sunrise is at 6:45 a.m. Sunset is 5:01 P.M. Moon rise is at 4:53 p.m., Moon set is 6:22 a.m. and tonight we have a full moon.   

The RAW METAR reading from the airport in Augusta, Maine is:

METAR KAUG 101153Z AUTO 28008KT 10SM FEW048 M16/M23 A2989 RMK AO2 SLP130 60000 70011 T11561228 11133 21161 51036 $

Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 Kilometers with some clouds to 4,800 ft / 1,463 m.

We’ve received roughly one foot of snow here over the past 24 hours.

Space Weather for this morning is:

Today’s Solar flux is 72, the solar wind speed is 434 Kilometers per second and the chance of a solar storm is 1%.

Okay, let’s try a multi-berry pie.  This time of year getting “real berries” is either not realistic or downright too expensive. So…

MERRY BERRY PIE

1 (6 oz) package sugar free strawberry gelatin

1 cup no sugar added whole berry cranberry sauce

½ cup cranberry juice cocktail no sugar added

1 Cool Whip Lite or Free

1 baked 9 inch pie shell

Dissolve gelatin in 1 cup boiling water.  Add cranberry sauce and juice.  Chill until it begins to thicken.  Fold in whipped topping; chill again until mixture will mound.  Pour into pie shell.  Refrigerate several hours before serving.