#MEwx Cooler, sun/clouds and military thoughts for the day

Good Morning Augusta

This morning we have partly sunny skies with highs in the lower 60s. Winds are light and variable, becoming northwest around 10 mph this afternoon.

Tonight we'll have mostly cloudy conditions with a 20 percent chance of rain. Lows in the mid 40s with light and variable winds.

The readings from my weather instruments are:

Our outdoor temperature is 45.3°F, the humidity is 53% and the Dew point is 29.3°F.

The wind direction is Northwest between 0.1 MPH and 0.3 MPH.

The Relative pressure is 30.09, the Absolute pressure is 29.89 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun and clouds.

If you want to see real-time instrument readings from my personal weather station in my North field click Here. That will take you directly to my weather station.

Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers with musty sunny conditions and clouds.

The UV rating is 0 out of 16, The moon is  94.1% illuminated, the moon phase is waning Gibbous, Sunrise is 5:00 am↑ 58° Northeast, sunset is 8:12 pm↑ 302° Northwest, Moonrise is 11:11 pm↑ 127° Southeast, Moonset is 6:44 am↑ 233° Southwest and we'll have 15 hours 13 minutes of daylight today.

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

And the thoughts for the day are:

Today's quotes are all military in origin.

 

"Cave ab homine unius libri"

("Beware the man of one book")

Clausewitz v. Jomini military theorist's dispute

 

"Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity."

Gen. George Patton

 

"Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But,

after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy

or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. ... the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy.

All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works

the same way in any country."

Hermann Göring, at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, April 18, 1946