#MEwx Sun, clouds snow moving later on and the quote for today with another weather lore tidbit

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 partly sunny skies with expected highs in the upper 20s. Winds are light and variable.

Tonight we’ll have partly cloudy conditions with scattered snow showers during evening hours, then cloudy with snow after midnight. Snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches and lows around 17°F. Winds will remain light and variable. Chance of 

The outdoor temperature is 15.6°F, the dewpoint is 8.2°F and the wind chill is 15.6°F.

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

Today’s sunrise is 7:03 AM, sunset is 4:01 PM and we’ll have 8 hours 58 minutes of daylight today.

Moonrise is 1:45  AM and Moonset is 10:46 PM. The moon phase is Waxing Crescent and is 34% illuminated. Our next full moon will be on December 15 and our next new moon is on December 30.

The wind is from the North between 1.3 MPH and  2.7 MPH.

The Relative pressure is 29.75, the Absolute pressure is 29.55 and rising with a weather graphic indicating clouds and sun.

The Humidity is 72%, the UV index is 0 placing the average person at low risk and the solar radiation reading is 27.1W/m2.

Visibility is 10.0 Miles / 16.1 Kilometers with partly cloudy skies and sun.

 

When all the blandishments of life are gone,

The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.

George Sewell "The Suicide"

 

More on Barometric pressure and your body.

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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