#MEwx Snow, cold quote for the day and more about weat5her lore you can use

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 snow, turning partly sunny with isolated flurries this afternoon. Additional snow accumulation around an inch with total snow accumulation of 3 to 4 inches. Highs in the upper 30s with Southwest winds around 10 mph.

Tonight we’ll have partly cloudy conditions during evening hours, then clearing. Lows in the lower 20s with Northwest winds around 10 mph.

The outdoor temperature is 27.9°F, the dewpoint is 27.7°F and the wind chill is 27.9°F.

We didn’t receive any rain or snow here over the past 24 hours.

Today’s sunrise is 7:04 AM, sunset is 4:01 PM and we’ll have 8 hours 57 minutes of daylight today.

Moonrise is 12:08 PM and Moonset is 12:05 AM. The moon phase is in its First Quarter and is 27% illuminated. Our next full moon will be on December 15 and our next new moon is on December 30.

The wind is from the East Southeast between 1.8 MPH and  4.7 MPH.

The Relative pressure is 29.36, the Absolute pressure is 29.16 and falling with a weather graphic indicating clouds and rain/snow.

The Humidity is 99%, the UV index is 0 placing the average person at low risk and the solar radiation reading is 1.9W/m2.

Visibility is 10.0 Miles / 16.1 Kilometers where the snow showers aren’t hitting.

 

“The worst crime is faking it.”

Kurt Cobain (and countless women)

 

More about barometric pressure and your body’s reaction to it.

Joint Pain

s at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston surveyed 200 patients with knee osteoarthritis and found a link between changes in barometric pressure and ambient temperature and changes in knee pain severity

What is high barometric pressure and how does it differ from the impact of low barometric pressure symptoms that raise your awareness of mysterious joint pain?

"It's not clear why a falling barometer would exacerbate joint pain and arthritis, but studies such as this one confirm that they do," reported Mother Nature. "It could be that barometric pressure affects the viscosity of the fluid that lines joint sacs, or it could be that it triggers the pain responses in the nerve endings of the joint. Either way, it's what your grandma has been saying for years: Some people feel pain in their joints when a storm is approaching."

Some people really can feel atmospheric pressure changes within their bodies.

Those with migraine, diabetes, high or low blood pressure, or osteoarthritis are the most susceptible to extra aches and pains before a storm. You can't control the weather, but understanding how weather changes affect you can help you prevent the worst or make better plans to weather the storm.

These 4 high- and low-barometric-pressure symptoms may help explain why you're feeling a bit off. Paying attention to changing weather patterns and weather symptoms can be a good way to manage your overall health. 

 

*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 effects 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 Emergency Room 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. At one point they also insisted that the world is flat. (Has anyone researched the latest conspiracy theory on that last one?)

I guess we’ll just have to wait for science to prove themselves wrong again.