Augusta, Maine Weather

Good morning Augusta I have an Ambient WS 5000 weather station broadcasting live where you can view real time weather readings from it by clicking here . This morning it is m ostly cloudy, clearing later. Patchy  fog   with highs in the lower 70s. Winds are light and variable. Tonight we’ll have mostly clear skies with lows in the upper 40s. Winds will remain light and variable. We didn’t receive any rain here over the past 24 hours. The wind is North Northwest between 0.0 MPH and 2.9 MPH.  . The Relative pressure is 30.03, the Absolute pressure is 29.93 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun. Our humidity is  99%, the temperature is 49.1°F, the dew point is 48.8°F  and it feels like   49.1°F. Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers with mostly cloudy sklies. The UV index is 0 placing the average person at low risk and the solar radiation reading is 38.2 W/m2. Sunrise is 6:36 AM, sun...

The local weather forecaster on TV has used the term “inverted trough” a few times and I didn’t know what that is. So, I looked it up. The explanation is below, and I found it on a real good web site with loads of different kinds of information that you might want to read through. I’ve copied the text below, but the pictures, as you may expect, are much better than a thousand words. The web site is: https://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints/126/ “WHAT IS AN INVERTED TROUGH?” METEOROLOGIST JEFF HABY In the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere a Trough is usually seen as a southerly bulge in the height contours . The lowest heights are generally located to the north of the trough. In an inverted trough situation, the height contours bulge to the north. This is more common in the tropical regions where regions of low pressure ride south of a mid-latitude high pressure but can happen in the mid-latitudes when low pressure is...

Good morning Augusta I have an Ambient WS 5000 weather station broadcasting live where you can view real time weather readings from it by clicking here . This morning it is foggy in places turning partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s with light and variable winds. Tonight we’ll have p artly cloudy skies with lows in the upper 40s. Winds will remain light and variable. We didn’t receive any rain here over the past 24 hours. The wind is Northeast between 1.8 MPH and 4.0 MPH.  . The Relative pressure is 30.10, the Absolute pressure is 29.90 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun. Our humidity is  99%, the temperature is 47.1°F, the dew point is 47.0°F  and it feels like   47.1°F. Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers with patchy dense fog in places so slow down out there. The UV index is 0 placing the average person at low risk and the solar radiation reading is 39.1 W/m2. Sunrise is 6:35...

Do you know what “W/M2” stands for as a weather reading? There are two readings on my personal Weather Station (which can be reached by clicking here ) that I get a lot of questions about. One is the W/M2 reading and the other is the UV index. What follows is a basic explanation of both readings that I’ve found online. They are by no means an exhaustive explanation, so if you’re really interested in them you can spend a bit of time with google and sit down with some hot coffee and read about it to your heart’s content.   By the way, my personal weather station is located on the northern most edge of the city of Augusta, Maine. I mention this so that you understand that the usual city-related ozone depletion is minimal (for UV reference) here. What does the solar radiation reading of W/m2 mean? Solar radiation is measured atop the meteorological mast at the shore laboratory using an Eppley Model PSP (Precision Spectral Pyranometer). Appr...

Good morning Augusta I have an Ambient WS 5000 weather station broadcasting live where you can view real time weather readings from it by clicking here . We’re under a special weather statement for dense fog, read it in full at the bottom of this post. This morning it is mostly sunny with expected highs in the lower 70s. Winds are light and variable. Tonight we’ll have mostly clear skies with lows in the mid 40s. Winds will remain light and variable. We didn’t receive any rain here over the past 24 hours. The wind is Northwest between 0.0 MPH and 2.0 MPH.  . The Relative pressure is 30.14, the Absolute pressure is 29.94 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun. Our humidity is  99%, the temperature is 44.1°F, the dew point is 43.9°F  and it feels like   44.1°F. Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers with dense fog at the moment, but it’ll clear up. The UV index is 0 placing the...

Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Gray ME 5:39 AM EDT Thu Sep 28 2023 Locally Dense Fog Expected Through 830 AM Patchy dense fog will continue through early this morning across portions of interior western Maine and New Hampshire. This will result in localized visibility restrictions of 1/4 mile or less, especially across valleys and near inland bodies of water. Motorists are advised to use extreme caution, use low beams, slow down, and allow for extra time to reach destinations. Tubbs

Blogger’s note: Recently I’ve done some research online about whether or not science has been able to show that phases of the moon, such as a full moon affects human behavior. Sadly, science STILL falls back on studies that reinforce previous studies “clearly showing” that the moon has no effect on what “we” do during the full of the moon. My father was a police officer, my sister in law is a career nurse, my brother was a paramedic prior to retirement, my wife was a court clerk and I worked in the medical benefits industry as an attorney for my entire legal career where I saw it every single month. According to science all of us are wrong and they’re right. But then again, this is the same field of study that always said there was no medical benefit to eating chicken soup and that Barometric pressure had no impact on such things as aches and pains, sinus headaches or blood pressure. I guess we’ll just have to wait for ...

Good morning Augusta I have an Ambient WS 5000 weather station broadcasting live where you can view real time weather readings from it by clicking here . This morning it is mostly sunny with highs in the upper 60s. Winds are light and variable. Tonight we’ll have mostly clear skies with patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s with light and variable winds. We didn’t receive any rain here over the past 24 hours. The wind is North Northeast between 0.0 MPH and 2.0 MPH.  . The Relative pressure is 30.00, the Absolute pressure is 29.80 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun. Our humidity is  99%the temperature is 41.9°F, the dew point is 41.6°F  and it feels like   41.9°F. Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers with mostly cloudy skies at the moment. The UV index is 0 placing the average person at low risk and the solar radiation reading is 39.3W/m2. Sunrise is 6:32 AM, sunset is 6:30 PM and we’...

What about Barometric Pressure and your Blood Sugar? Is this another connection to Migraines? Yep, looks like it’s all connected in one way or another. Blood Sugar When the pressure drops during a cold front, it causes the viscosity, or thickness, of the blood to increase, said Jennifer Vanos, assistant professor in geosciences at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, in an interview with weather.com "Diabetics will have more trouble controlling their blood sugar during cold fronts," she said. Rapidly dropping blood sugar could also trigger a migraine attack.  Reactive hypoglycemia  is a condition in which your blood sugar falls quickly, and it usually happens when the sugar rush from high-carb or high-glucose foods wears off. It's one of the least understood, but very real, migraine triggers. When blood sugar dips as a result of a change in the environment, it can produce what is called low barometric pressure fatigue.   *Joint Pain ...