Clear, sunny and warm today - and a great beef stew recipe

Good Morning Augusta

Today it’s going to be mostly sunny with a high near 62ºF and North winds of 5 MPH.

Tonight we’ll have partly cloudy skies with a low of 35ºF and calm winds becoming North of about 5 MPH.

The readings from my weather instruments are:

Humidity is 56%, the dew point is 46ºF and outside it’s 43.0ºF.

The wind direction is South between 0.0 MPH and 0.4 MPH, generating a wind chill of 43.0ºF.

The Barometric pressure is 30.13 / HPA 1020.3 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun.

The UV rating is 1 out of 16, Sunrise is at 5:40 a.m. Sunset is 7:34 P.M. Moon rise is at 4:54 a.m., Moon set is 5:25 p.m. and the moon phase is waning crescent.

The Raw METAR reading from the airport in Augusta is:

METAR KAUG 241053Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 04/02 A3012 RMK AO2 SLP202 T00390017

Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 Kilometers with clear skies today. 

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

Space Weather for this morning is:

Today’s Solar flux is 84, the solar wind speed is 763  Kilometers per second and the chance of a solar storm is 1%.

For those of you who are “on the go” a lot, and who also own a crock pot try this:

BEEF STEW – Crockpot

1 lb lean beef chunks

2 – 6  medium potatoes – halved

A handful of baby carrots

1 package Onion Soup mix

1 cup  water

Cook on Low     8 – 10 hours

               High    6 -  8 hours

½  hour before serving:  microwave about 1 cup of vegetables of your choice -  corn, peas, lima beans – for 5 minutes.  Add to pot and simmer