#MEwx Clooudy with some sun and above freezing and How to tell weather from the dew on the grass.
I’ve put up an Ambient WS 5000 weather station where you can view real time weather readings from my location online by clicking here.
This morning we have mostly cloudy skies with a 20 percent chance of rain showers. Highs in the mid 40s with South winds 10 to 15 mph gusting to 30 mph.
Tonight we’ll have partly cloudy conditions with lows in the upper 30s. Winds will be Southwest 10 to 15 mph gusting to 25 mph.
We didn’t receive any rain here over the past 24 hours, but I registered 0.11 inches of melting hours, but
The wind is West between 2.7 MPH and 4.5 MPH.
The Relative pressure is 29.95, the Absolute pressure is 29.75 and steady with a weather graphic indicating clouds with some sun.
Augusta’s humidity is 93%, the outdoor temperature is 24.8°F, the dew point is 23.1°F and the wind chill is 25.0°F.
Visibility is 10.0 Miles / 16.1 Kilometers with mostly cloudy skies at this moment.
The UV index is 0 placing the average person at low risk and the solar radiation reading is 28.6W/m2. The moon is Waning Crescent and is 33% illuminated. Sunrise is 6:40 AM, sunset is 5:08 PM, moonrise is 3:11 AM and Moonset is 11:33 AM. We’ll have 10 hours 29 minutes of daylight today. The next Full Moon is on March 9 with our next new moon being on February 20.
I never heard this one, but it makes good, logical sense.
“When dew is on the grass, rain will never come to pass.”
Dew forms when grass gets colder than the dew-point temperature (the temp at which dew forms). At night, grass cools when heat from the ground radiates upward. In a clear, dry atmosphere, this heat escapes the atmosphere and rises into outer space.
In a moist and humid atmosphere, water vapor absorbs some of that heat and can redirect it back down to the ground, warming up the grass, and thus keeping it dew free.
Dew on the grass is therefore a sign of a high pressure system, and good weather.
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