#MEwx Snow and more snow, temps near or above freezing and a proverb about barometers
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.
It’s snowing like a Banshee out there folk. Stay Hunkered down.
This morning we have a lot of snow. Snow may be heavy at times with possible snow accumulation of 8 to 12 inches. Highs in the lower 30s, Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph gusting to 25 mph.
Tonight we’ll have clouds with a chance of snow during evening hours. Lows in the lower 20s with North winds around 10 mph gusting to 25 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
We’ve received roughly 3 inches of snow here over the past 24 hours and it’s a long way from being over with.
The wind is Northeast between 3.1 MPH and 6.9 MPH.
The Relative pressure is 29.52, the Absolute pressure is 29.32 and falling with a weather graphic indicating sun and a few clouds.
Visibility is very limited with blowing snow and the odd white-out. Slow down folks, it’s risky driving out there. Best you just stay home.
The UV index is 0 placing the average person at no risk and the solar radiation reading is 7.0W/m2. Sunrise is 6:13 AM, sunset is 5:31 PM, moonrise is 2:27 PM and Moonset is 5:21 AM. The moon is Waxing Gibbous and is 90% illuminated. We’ll have 11 hours 16 minutes of daylight today. The next Full Moon is on March 9 with our next new moon being on March 21, 2023 .
“When the glass falls low, prepare for a blow; when the glass is high, let your kites fly.”
This is a simple proverb about watching and reading barometric pressure. In the early days of this weather gauge, it was called a “glass” (because a glass tube housed the mercury). When the “glass” is low — that is, when the mercury is low, meaning low pressure — you can expect rain and generally poor weather. When the mercury is high, a high pressure system is in (or coming in), and fair weather can be enjoyed.
In the “old days” (before digital barometers) the barometers were not all the same design. For example, the round ones you’ve probably seen in the old black and white movies (yes, I’m that old) you have probably seen the movie star, a ship’s captain or weather station supervisor, study the “glass” seriously, state with great gravity “The glass is still falling” and then reach out with one fingernail and tap on the glass face of the barometer. The camera would then probably pan to a scene out a window showing flashes of lightening and windows being lashed with wind-blown torrents of rain.
The reason for that “tapping” stems from the quirk of those old barometers. With the expansion and contraction of temperature variations the needle of the barometer would occasionally stick. The gentle taps would serve to break it loose and give you the accurate reading.
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