Warm, rain, melting and flooding

Good Morning Augusta

This morning it’s overcast with showers at times. High will reach 46ºF. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 40%.

Tonight we’ll have fog during the evening with a few showers developing late. Low will drop to 38ºF. Winds will be light and variable. Chance of rain 30%.

The readings from my weather instruments are:

Humidity is 97%, the dew point is 33ºF, outside it’s 6.0ºC and 43.4ºF.

The wind direction is North Northwest between 0.7 MPH and 1.3 MPH, generating a wind chill of 43.4ºF.

The Barometric pressure is 29.99 / HPA 1015.5 and steady with a weather graphic indicating sun.

We have no UV rating owing to the clouds, Sunrise is at 6:24 a.m. Sunset is 5:20 P.M. Moon rise is at 5:10 a.m., Moon set is 3:25 p.m. and the moon phase is waning crescent.   

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

No METAR reading is currently available.

Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 Kilometers with some real low  clouds, and no altitude reading from the airport being available.

We didn’t receive any rain or snow here over the past 24 hours, but it’s definitely melting out there.

Space Weather for this morning is:

Today’s Solar flux is 82, the solar wind speed is 621  Kilometers per second and the chance of a solar storm is 1%.

How ab out some “clusters?”

MINT CHOCOLATE CLUSTERS

Serves:  24 balls

 

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

1 tsp. mint extract

½ cup pecan pieces

2/3 cup Cheerios

1/3 cup M&M’s mini-baking bits

 

·         Microwave 1 cup chocolate chips in a bowl on high power until melted.  About 2 minutes. 

·         Stir in 1 tsp. mint extract.

·         Thoroughly stir in ½ cup pecan pieces, 2/3 cup Cheerios and 1/3 cup M&M’s.

·         Using a tsp. drop 1½ inch pieces on wax paper.  Cool.

 

Exchanges:  ½ carbohydrate, 1 fat

Calories:  68; protein:  1 g; fat:  4 g; carbohydrates:  7 g; fiber:  1 g; sodium:  8 mg