#MEwx Sun with patches of fog and the weather connection to your blood pressure
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This morning we have mostly cloudy skies with patchy fog. A chance of showers this afternoon with highs in the mid 70s. Winds are light and variable, becoming southeast around 10 mph gusting to 20 mph this afternoon.
Tonight we’ll have cloudy with isolated thunderstorms and a chance of showers in the evening, then showers likely after midnight. Patchy fog with lows in the mid 50s. East winds around 10 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
The outdoor temperature is °F, the dew 66.0point is 63.7°F and it feels like 66.4°F.
We didn’t receive any rain here over the past 24 hours.
Today’s sunrise is 4:57 AM, sunset is 8:21 PM and we’ll have 15 hours 24 minutes of daylight today. Moonrise is 4:32 AM and Moonset is 9:18 PM. The moon phase is Waxing Crescent and is 0.03% illuminated. Our next full moon will be on June 21 and our next new moon is on July x.
The wind velocity is between 2.9 MPH and 6.0 MPH from the North Northeast.
The Relative pressure is 29.50, the Absolute pressure is 29.30 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun and a few clouds.
The Humidity is 91%, the UV index is 4 placing the average person at moderate risk and the solar radiation reading is 431.8W/m2.
Visibility is 10.0 Miles / 16.1 Kilometers with Sun and clouds.
Blood Pressure
How can the barometric pressure today affect your blood pressure? Your circulatory system is made up of your heart, which acts as a pump, and your arteries and veins, which carry blood to and from your heart and tissues. Blood pressure is determined by the rate and strength of your heart and the resistance of your blood vessels. Changing blood pressure is another big health effect of barometric pressure.
"When it gets cold, your blood vessels constrict. This causes your blood pressure to increase because it takes more pressure to move blood through a narrower space, explained Sheldon Sheps, MD, emeritus professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, on mayoclinic.org.
"In addition to cold weather, blood pressure may also be affected by a sudden change in weather patterns, such as a weather front or a storm," said Dr. Sheps. "Your body — and blood vessels — may react to abrupt changes in humidity, atmospheric pressure, cloud cover or wind in much the same way it reacts to cold."
"These weather-related variations in blood pressure are more common in people ages 65 and older," he said.
* 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.
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