#MEwx rain/snow with your weather proberb on New Years Day

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 patchy fog  with rain and snow this morning, turning all rain this afternoon. Snow accumulation up to 1 inch with highs in the upper 30s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph gusting to 25 mph.

Tonight we’ll have clouds with a chance of rain or snow after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s with West winds 10 to 15 mph.

The outdoor temperature is 34.7°F, the dewpoint is 34.4°F and the wind chill is 29.1°F.

We received 0.37  inces of rain/snow here over the past 24 hours.

Today’s sunrise is 7:16 AM, sunset is 4:11 PM and we’ll have 8 hours 55 minutes of daylight today.

Moonrise is 8:49 AM and Moonset is 5:49 PM. The moon phase is a Waxing Crescent and is 5% illuminated. Our next full moon will be on January 13 and our next new moon is on January 30.

The wind is from the North between 6.7 MPH and  15.7 MPH.

The Relative pressure is 29.37, the Absolute pressure is 29.17 and ralling with a weather graphic indicating rain/snow.

The Humidity is 99%, 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 where it isn’t raining.

 

Today’s weather proverb:

 

“When the ass begins to bray, surely rain will come that day.”

Ass begins to bray weather proverb illustration.

Advancing rain and storm systems are often first indicated by falling air pressure. Low pressure has been shown to make animals of all varieties more irritable and active. Dogs bark more, frogs croak, birds chirp, etc. The science is murky, but prevailing theories are that changes in air pressure are felt acutely by animals; humans sometimes feel cranky and out of sorts when a low pressure system blows in too, but an unstable atmosphere in general is better detected by our four-legged friends. So when the ass brays, and other creatures get a little feistier, know that poor weather may be coming.