#MEwx Sun, temps above freezing again and another weather proverb about clouds
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 partly sunny skies, becoming mostly cloudy. Highs around 40°F with light and variable winds becoming south around 10 mph gusting to 20 mph this afternoon.
Tonight we’ll have mostly cloudy conditions with patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s with South winds around 10 mph gusting to 25 mph.
We didn’t receive any rain or snow here over the past 24 hours.
The wind is Northwest between 2.7 MPH and 3.8 MPH.
The Relative pressure is 30.11, the Absolute pressure is 29.91 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun.
Augusta’s humidity is 79%, the outdoor temperature is 26.6°F, the dew point is 21.0°F and the wind chill is 26.6°F.
Visibility is 10.0 Miles / 16.1 Kilometers with partly sunny skies.
The UV index is 0 placing the average person at low risk and the solar radiation reading is 58.1W/m2. Sunrise is 6:34 AM, sunset is 5:13 PM, moonrise is 6:39 AM and Moonset is 4:30 PM. The moon is Waning Crescent and is 1% illuminated. We’ll have 10 hours 40 minutes of daylight today. The next Full Moon is on March 9 with our next new moon being on February 20.
Here’s another weather proverb about what you can learn by looking at clouds.
“Mackerel skies and mares’ tails make tall ships carry low sails.”
“Mackerel” in this proverb is referring to altocumulus clouds, while “mares’ tails” is referring to cirrus clouds. Seeing these in the sky can mean a low pressure system is coming. In the immediate future (24 hours or so), you’ll see good weather. But the mackerels and mares’ tails are the first visible signs of an approaching warm front, which provides the ingredients for storms. As the system rolls in, the clouds will become thicker and thicker until the rain starts to fall.
So when a ship would see these signs, they’d lower the sails and batten down the hatches in preparation of incoming bad weather.
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