#MEwx Sun, temps above freezing and how to predict weather by the speed of a system

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.

This morning we have partly sunny skies with highs in the lower 40s. Winds are light and variable, becoming northwest around 10 mph gusting to 20 mph this afternoon.

Tonight we’ll have partly cloudy conditions during evening hours, then clearing with lows in the upper 20s. Winds will be Northwest 10 to 15 mph gusting to 30 mph.

We’ve received  a grand total of 10 inches of heavy wet snow here for the duration of the great March 4 storm.

The  wind is southeast between  2.5 MPH and 3.9 MPH.

The Relative pressure is 29.75, the Absolute pressure is 29.55 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun and a few clouds.

Augusta’s humidity is 85%, the  outdoor temperature is 28.0°F, the dew point is 24.0°F and the wind chill is 27.9°F.

Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers with 

The UV index is 1 placing the average person at low risk and the solar radiation reading is 105.3W/m2. Sunrise is 6:11 AM, sunset is 5:32 PM, moonrise is 3:31 PM and Moonset is 5:47 AM. The moon is Waxing Gibbous and is 95% illuminated. We’ll have 11 hours 22 minutes of daylight today. The next Full Moon is on March 9 with our next new moon being on March 21, 2023 .

 

This is the last Weather Proverb for a while.

 

“Long foretold, long last, short notice, soon passed.”

A weather system with gradual changes is more likely to stick around for a while than a weather system that moves and changes quickly. A shower or storm that only lasts a few minutes or hours is the result of dramatic changes in air pressure and temperature, which aren’t able to be forecasted with any real accuracy. If pressure and temperature changes happen slowly, however, it’s very likely that the weather system will stick around longer. These are also far more likely to be accurately predicted by meteorologists; slow-moving systems with gradual changes are obviously easier to read.

 

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