#MEwx Air Quality Alert, sun, clouds and todays weather proverb

Good morning Augusta

We’re under an Air Quality Alert until 11 PM tonight. See the post below this one.

This morning we have partly sunny skies with a slight chance of showers this afternoon. Hazy this afternoon with highs in the lower 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph gusting to 25 mph.

Tonight we’ll have partly cloudy conditions with a slight chance of showers and isolated thunderstorms in the evening. Patchy fog after midnight with lows in the lower 60s. South winds around 10 mph gusting to 20 mph this evening, becoming light and variable.

The outdoor temperature is 64.8°F, the Dew Point is 58.8°F and it feels like 64.8°F.

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

Sunrise is 5:21 am, sunset is 8:11 PM and we’ll have 14 hours 49 minutes of daylight today.

Moonrise is 8:22 AM,  Moonset is 9:50 PM. The moon phase is Waxing Crescent and is 5% illuminated. Our next full moon will be on August 9 and our next new moon is on August 23.

The wind is from the North between 1.6 MPH and 4.5 MPH.

The Relative pressure is 29.76, the Absolute pressure is 29.56 and falling with a weather graphic indicating partial sun and some rain possible.

The humidity is 83%, the UV index is 3 placing the average person at moderate risk and the solar radiation reading is 358.0W/M2.

Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 Kilometers with partly cloudy skies.

 

“If the new moon holds the old moon in her lap, fair weather.”

Most of the time, it’s difficult to see the dark part of the moon during its new and crescent phases. This is because the air has a general state of turbulence — all kinds of molecules and particles banging into each other. In low pressure, poor weather systems, this is even more the case. During high pressure, fair weather systems though, the atmosphere clears up more than usual, and dim objects are easier seen by the human eye.

So, if you can see the dark part of the moon (that’s the meaning of the cryptic proverb), it means a high pressure system is making its way in, and you can expect good weather.