#MEwx Sunny and hot with rain possible and todays cheap shot quotation

Good morning Augusta

Note: All readings shown below are taken as of 7:25  AM today.

This morning we have partly sunny skies with patchy fog. Isolated showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and warm with highs in the mid 80s. Winds are light and variable, becoming west around 10 mph gusting to 20 mph this afternoon. Heat index values around 90 this afternoon.

Tonight we’ll have mostly clear skies with lows in the lower 60s. Winds are Northwesterly around 10 mph this evening, becoming light and variable.

The Outdoor temperature is 73.0°F, the Dew Point is 72.2°F and the heat index is 75.0°F with 95% humidity.

Sunrise is 5:36 AM, Sunset is 7:55 PM and we’ll have 14 hours 19 minutes of daylight today.

Moonrise is 1:22 AM, Moonset is 6:12 PM. The moon phase is Waning Crescent being 17% illuminated.

The next Full Moon is August 28 and the next New Moon is on August 12.

We’ve received a total of 1.18 inches of rain here for this past rain event.

There were no detectible lightening strikes here over the past 24 hours.

The wind is 0.0 MPH from the Northwest gusting to 1.6 MPH.

The relative barometric pressure is 29.66, the absolute barometric pressure is 29.46 and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun and a few clouds.

The UV index is 3 placing the average person at low risk and the solar radiation reading is 377.1W/M2.

Visibility is 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers with mostly sunny skies.

 

Todays cheap shot quotation is:

To be clear, bad guys will always be able to get ahold of a firearm. The harder you make it for decent folks to get one and train with it only makes things easier for the bad guys.”

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