#MEwx Colder, snow, a Winter STorm Warning and Noisy animals predicting weather

Good morning Augusta.

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.

We’re under a  Winter Storm Warning, it’s in the post preceding this one. You WANT to read it.

This morning we have partly sunny skies with highs in the mid 30s. Winds are Northwest around 10 mph gusting to 20 mph.

Tonight we’ll have a chance of snow during evening hours, snow after midnight. Snow may be heavy at times. Snow accumulation of 3 to 6 inches with lows around 14°F. Light and variable winds, becoming northeast around 10 mph gusting to 20 mph after midnight.

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

The  wind is North Northwest between  4.0 MPH and 7.5 MPH.

The Relative pressure is 29.73, the Absolute pressure is 29.53 and falling with a weather graphic indicating snow.

Augusta’s humidity is 65%, the  outdoor temperature is 32.0°F, the dew point is 20.9°F and the wind chill is 25.9°F.

Visibility is  10.0 Miles / 16.1 Kilometers with deceptively sun and clouds.

The UV index is 0 placing the average person at low risk and the solar radiation reading is 48.8W/m2. Sunrise is 6:30 AM, sunset is 5:17 PM, moonrise is 7:54 AM and Moonset is 8:22 PM. The moon is Waxing Crescent and is 5% illuminated. We’ll have 10 hours 49 minutes of daylight today. The next Full Moon is on March 9 with our next new moon being on March 21, 2023 .

 

“When the ass begins to bray, surely rain will come that day.”

Advancing rain and storm systems are often first indicated by falling air pressure. Low pressure has been shown to make animals of all varieties more irritable and active. Dogs bark more, frogs croak, birds chirp, etc. The science is murky, but prevailing theories are that changes in air pressure are felt acutely by animals; humans sometimes feel cranky and out of sorts when a low pressure system blows in too, but an unstable atmosphere in general is better detected by our four-legged friends. So when the ass brays, and other creatures get a little feistier, know that poor weather may be coming.