#MEwx downright warm and some election years information you NEED to know

Good morning Augusta

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

here.

This morning it’s partly sunny with expected highs in the mid 50s. Winds will be light and variable.

Tonight we’ll have partly cloudy skies during evening hours, becoming cloudy. Lows will drop to the mid 30s. Light and variable winds.

The readings from my weather instruments are:

Our outdoor temperature is 34.5°F, the humidity is 60%, the dew point is 22.1°F and our wind chill is 34.5°F.

The wind direction is Northwest between 0.0 MPH and 0.2 MPH.

The Relative pressure is 30.08, the Absolute pressure is 29.88 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun.

Visibility is 10.0 Miles with mostly sunny skies

The UV rating is 1 out of 16, The moon is 99.7% illuminated, the moon phase is a FULL MOON, Sunrise is 7:01 A.M., Sunset is 6:38 P.M., Moonrise is 6:39 P.M., Moonset is 7:21 A.M and we’ll have 11 hours 37 minutes of daylight today.  

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

Now that we’re back in a Federal Election season you need to remember a few things.

First – Federal law mandates that all polls must have an accessible voting machine set up and operating for voters with a disability.

Second - directly from the “Devil’s Dictionary” by Ambrose Bierce, are some often used terms you need to know the definitions of to make that all-important “informed choice” this November. :

So – the terms I’ve picked for today are:

DEGRADATION, n.  One of the stages of moral and social progress from

private station to political preferment.

 

DELEGATION, n.  In American politics, an article of merchandise that

comes in sets.

 

DELIBERATION, n.  The act of examining one's bread to determine which

side it is buttered on.

 

DEPENDENT, adj.  Reliant upon another's generosity for the support

which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

 

DEPUTY, n.  A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. 

 

DICTATOR, n.  The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of

 

despotism to the plague of anarchy.

 

DIPLOMACY, n.  The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

 

DISCUSSION, n.  A method of confirming others in their errors.

 

DISOBEDIENCE, n.  The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

 

DISOBEY, v.t.  To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity

of a command.

 

CONSCIENCE - That which hurts when everything else feels so good.

 

VICE - Anything you enjoy that is bad for you.

 

SIN - Anything the other fellow enjoys and you don't.

 

PURITAN – AN INDIVIDUAL WHO SUSPECTS THAT SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE IS HAVING FUN