#MEwx Warm and rainy again with how barometric pressure affects your blood sugar
This morning we have mostly cloudy skies with isolated showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s with light and variable winds.
Tonight we’ll have isolated thunderstorms this evening turning cloudy with isolated showers. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s with light and variable winds.
The outdoor temperature is 66.0°F, the dewpoint is 65.7°F and it feels like 66.0°F.
We received an additional 0.01 inches of rain here over the past 24 hours.
Sunrise is 5:05 am, sunset is 8:25 PM and we’ll have 15 hours 20 minutes of daylight today.
Moonrise is 8:01 PM, Moonset is 3:12 AM. The moon phase is Waxing Gibbous and is 97% illuminated. Our next full moon will be on July 10 and our next new moon is on July 24.
The wind is from the East Northeast between 1.3 MPH and 4.3 MPH.
The Relative pressure is 29.80, the Absolute pressure is 29.60 and rising with a weather graphic indicating rain and clouds.
The humidity is 99%, the UV index is 0 placing the average person at low risk and the solar radiation reading is 92.5W/M2.
Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 Kilometers with overcast and rain again today.
Barometric pressure and your 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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