#MEwx Mild Temps, partial sun and how to deal with roof raking and ice damns

Good morning Augusta

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

Today it’s going to be mostly cloudy, then partly sunny with a chance of snow showers this afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s. Light and variable winds, becoming

northwest around 10 mph this afternoon.

Tonight we’ll have partly cloudy skies with a chance of snow showers this evening. Lows around 19 with west winds around 10 mph.

The readings from my weather instruments are:

Our outdoor temperature is 20.8°F, the humidity is 90%, the Dew Point is 18.3°F and our wind chill is 20.8°F.

The wind direction is Northwest between 0.0 MPH and 1.2 MPH.  

The Relative pressure is 29.42, the Absolute pressure is 29.42, the HPA is 999 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun.

Visibility is 5.2 Miles / 6.4 Kilometers with scattered clouds to 7,000 ft.

The UV rating is 0 out of 16, Sunrise is 6:58 A.M. EST, Sunset is 4:00 P.M. EST, Moonrise is 1:07 P.M. EST, Moonset is xx:xx P.M. EST and the Moon is in it’s first quarter.

The RAW METAR reading for Augusta is:

METAR KAUG 051153Z AUTO 00000KT 4SM BR SCT070 M04/M06 A2949 RMK AO2 SLP990 I1000 I6001 T10441056 11022 21044 53016

We didn’t receive any additional snow here over the past 24 hours, but it’s melting a lot out there.

Snow buildup on your roof can cause a lot of trouble for you as a homeowner. So can the slow buildup of ice damns on the lower edge of the roof. The bottom line is that you need to know the safe way to remove snow from your roof. The URL below happens to be from Ace Hardware about roof raking and the easy way to prevent ice damns from causing you trouble.

Of course, the Ice Damn product and Roof Rake they show are sold by Ace Hardware, but you get the point. There are many other sites on line that will show you how to handle this seasonal problem, so if you don’t care for the one I’ve posted here, just do a Google search for roof-raking and you’ll get dozens of hits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA8uEW24eIw