#MEwx Cloudy and rainy with temps above freezing and your weather proverb for today

Good morning Augusta

You can find my personal weather station list with AMBIENT weather.com as KMEAUGUS22. That stands for Kennebec County in Augusta, Maine that first went on line in 2022. There is a 20 second delay between when the station reads the weather and when it hits the web.

This morning we have cloudy and rainy conditions. Areas of fog this afternoon with highs in the mid 30s. Winds are light and.

Tonight we’ll have rain  with areas of dense fog. Visibility one quarter mile or less at times with lows in the mid 30s. Temperatures will rise into the lower 40s after midnight. Winds will remain light and variable, becoming southeast around 10 mph after midnight.

The outdoor temperature is 23.2°F, the dewpoint is 21.7°F and the wind chill is 23.2°F.

We didn’t receive any additional snow here over the past 24 hours buat it’s starting to melt out there.

Today’s sunrise is 7:16 AM, sunset is 4:09 PM and we’ll have 8 hours 52 minutes of daylight today.

Moonrise is 6:23 AM and Moonset is 2:29 PM. The moon phase is a New Moon and is xx% illuminated. Our next full moon will be on January 13 and our next new moon is on January 30.

The wind is from the East between 1.3 MPH and  2.5 MPH.

The Relative pressure is 29.93, the Absolute pressure is 29.73 and rising with a weather graphic indicating clouds and sun.

The Humidity is 94%, the UV index is 0 placing the average person at low risk and the solar radiation reading is 12.9W/m2.

Visibility is 10.0 Miles / 16.1 Kilometers with overcast skies.

 

Today’s weather proverb:

 

“A ring around the sun or moon, means that rain will come real soon.”

A ring around the sun or moon is caused by light from those bodies (light doesn’t come from the moon, but you get my drift…) passing through ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. These ice crystals have either been blown over the tops of high, approaching storm clouds, or from high cirrus clouds, which as we just learned, can be the first indication of an incoming low pressure system. So when you see a ring, prepare for precipitation.