#MEwx Cold with snow possible with your weather proverb for today
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 clouds with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs in the mid 20s with Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph gusting to 25 mph.
Tonight we’ll have mostly cloudy skies during evening hours, then clearing. Lows around 5 above with Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph gusting to 25 mph. Wind chill values can be as low as 6 below after midnight.
The outdoor temperature is 19.6°F, the dewpoint is 14.2°F and the wind chill is 8.6°F.
We didn’t receive any rain or snow here over the past 24 hours.
Today’s sunrise is 7:13 AM, sunset is 4:04 PM and we’ll have 8 hours 50 minutes of daylight today.
Moonrise is 10:50 PM and Moonset is 11:16 AM. The moon phase is Waning Gibbous and is 66% illuminated. Our next full moon will be on January 13 and our next new moon is on December 30.
The wind is from the North Northwest between 10.7 MPH and 13.6 MPH.
The Relative pressure is 29.58, the Absolute pressure is 29.38 and falling with a weather graphic indicating clouds and some snow.
The Humidity is 78%, the UV index is 0 placing the average person at low risk and the solar radiation reading is 20.4W/m2.
Visibility is 10.0 Miles / 16.1 Kilometers with cloud cover.
Today’s weather proverb:
“When pipes smell stronger, it’s going to rain.”
To understand this proverb, we need to go to the molecular level. In dry air, aromatic or “smell” molecules (those that carry scent to our noses) are “naked” — they are floating around in the air on their own. In moist, humid air, water molecules attach to the aromatic molecules, and the scent becomes hydrated. This allows those smell molecules to better attach themselves to the moist surfaces of your nose, which makes their particular scent stronger.
When the air is moist like this, humidity is increasing, making rain more likely. So if your tobacco pipe has a stronger smell than usual, you might predict that poor weather is on its way. The same effect can be noted with lovely-smelling flowers (“Flowers smell best just before a rain”) and also offending manure fields and ponds (“Manure smells stronger before a rain” and “When ditches and ponds offend the nose, Look for rains and stormy blows”).
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