#MEwx Foggy, hot 'n humid with another weather proverb
This morning we have patchy fog with partly sunny skies, then mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce gusty winds, small hail, and heavy rainfall. Highs in the lower 80s with South winds around 10 mph gusting to 25 mph.
Tonight we’ll have partly cloudy skies with scattered showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear after midnight. Some thunderstorms may produce gusty winds, small hail, and heavy rainfall this evening. Humid with lows in the mid 60s, South winds around 10 mph, becoming west after midnight, gusting to 25 mph.
The outdoor temperature is 69.3°F, the dewpoint is 69.0°F an d it feels like 70.6°F.
We didn’t receive any rain here over the past 24 hours.
Sunrise is 5:11 am, sunset is 8:21 PM and we’ll have 15 hours 8 minutes of daylight today.
Moonrise is 11:37 PM, Moonset is 12:56 PM. The moon phase is is in its third quarter and is xx% illuminated. Our next full moon will be on August 9 and our next new moon is on July 24.
The wind is from the South Southeast between 0.0 MPH and 4.0 MPH.
The Relative pressure is 29.63, the Absolute pressure is 29.43 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun and some clouds.
The humidity is 90%, the UV index is 1 placing the average person at low risk and the solar radiation reading is 106.7W/M2.
Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 Kilometers with fog and spotty cloud cover above the fog.
“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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