#MEwx Rainy, cooler and how to build your own Potato Gun
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This morning we have mostly cloudy with showers likely, then partly sunny with scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s with light and variable winds, becoming west around 10 mph gusting to 20 mph this afternoon.
Tonight we’ll have mostly clear skies and Less humid with lows around 50°F. Winds are Northwest around 10 mph.
The outdoor temperature is 63.0°F, the dewpoint is 62.7°F and it feels like 63.0°F.
We received 0.18 inches of rain here over the past 24 hours.
Today’s sunrise is 4:58 AM, sunset is 8:28 PM and we’ll have 15 hours 30 minutes of daylight today. Moonrise is 12:10 AM and Moonset is 11:11 AM. The moon phase is Waning Gibbous and is 69% illuminated. Our next full moon will be on June 21 and our next new moon is on July 5.
The wind velocity is between 1.1 MPH and 5.8 MPH from the West.
The Relative pressure is 29.42, the Absolute pressure is 29.22 and falling with a weather graphic indicating rain and clouds.
The Humidity is 99%, the UV index is 0 placing the average person at moderate risk and the solar radiation reading is 69.5W/m2.
Visibility is 10.0 Miles / 16.1 Kilometers with rain and overcast.
Do you have some bored kids around the house this summer vacation? Well, if they’re of the “destructive age” (parents, you know what I mean) then get them to build their very own Potato gun.
See below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYy5pbjkGcQ
Just for the record, No, I’m not nuts, but I know early teen kids and the kind of trouble they can get into. So give ‘em something that feeds their boredom andins’t “that dangerous.”
So, who’s Yam cannon can shoot a spud the farthest?These homemade devices have many names. Potato Gun, Potato Launcher, Spud Gun, and many other names. We like to call ours a Yam Cannon!
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