#MEwx Temps reaching the 40s and how to calculate wind chill factors

Good morning Augusta

A direct, real-time feed from my personal weather station is available for you here.

Today it’s going to be partly sunny with highs in the lower 40s. Southwest winds will be around 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.

Tonight we’ll have partly cloudy skies during evening hours, then clearing. Lows around 14. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.

The readings from my weather instruments are:

Our outdoor temperature is 28.1°F, the humidity is 75% and the Dew Point is 21.6°F.

The wind direction is West Northwest between 0.0 MPH and 0.2 MPH with a wind chill of 28.4°F.  

The Relative pressure is 30.01, the Absolute pressure is 29.80 and falling with a weather graphic indicating clouds.

Visibility is 10.0 Miles / 16.1 Kilometers with overcast skies to 5,000 ft / 1,524 m.

The UV rating is 0 out of 16, Sunrise is 6:34 AM Sunset is 4:12 PM, Moonrise is 6:40 PM, moonset is 9:31

AM and the moon phase is Waning gibbous. 

The RAW METAR readings from Augusta’s airport are:

METAR KAUG 151153Z AUTO 19004KT 10SM OVC050 M02/M04 A3009 RMK AO2 SLP195 T10221044 11022 21033 58014

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

Want to know how to calculate wind chills? The old saying of drop the temperature by one degree for every MPH of wind isn’t necessarily the right way to calculate it.

So, go to the URL below and use their online wind chill calculator. The explanation of how it works is also there.

https://www.weather.gov/epz/wxcalc_windchill