Wednesday, August 14, 2013

A black-and-yellow garden spider out in the front field.

Morning Observation:

This morning in Huntington at 7:15AM it’s currently 54 degrees under overcast skies. Winds are calm. Relative humidity is 97%, dewpoint 53, barometric pressure 29.70″ and rising. We picked up 0.25″ of rain in the past 24hrs. Yesterday’s high was 72, and the overnight low was 54.

Forecast:

An upper trough will move through the region today bringing cooler temperatures and a chance of rain showers. A ridge of high pressure will build slowly east from the Great Lakes tonight and will bring a prolonged period of mainly fair and dry weather to the north to the region through early next week. We’ll see mostly cloudy skies with a 30% chance of showers today. Highs will be only in the lower 60s with west winds 10 to 15 mph. Tonight should be mostly clear with lows in the upper 40s and west winds 10 to 15 mph until midnight, becoming light and variable.

Thursday should be partly sunny with highs in the lower 70s and west winds 10 to 15 mph. Thursday night should be mostly clear with lows in the lower 50s and southwest winds around 10 mph.

Friday’s looking mostly sunny with highs in the mid 70s ands southwest winds around 10 mph. Friday night should be mostly clear with lows in the upper 50s.

Almanac:

Last year on this date we had a high of 80 and a low of 57.

Burlington norms for this date are highs of 80°F and lows of 59°F.
Record high was 96°F in 1944.
Record low was 47°F in 1923.

Sky Notes:

Sunrise: 5:54 AM EDT
Sunset: 7:58 PM EDT
Length Of Visible Light: 15h 06m
Length of Day: 14h 03m
Tomorrow will be 2m 42s shorter.

The Moon is in its first quarter, 7d 13h old with 51% illumination.
Moonrise: 2:09 PM EDT
Moonset: 11:59 PM EDT

About Today’s Photo:

Black-and-yellow garden spiders (Argiope aurantia) are quite common here in Vermont. This fine lady had recently caught herself a fly and was snacking on it when I came across her. She scurried away when I got low to shoot and then slowly returned to continue her meal.

Nikon D600, Sigma 105mm lens, ISO 800, f/3.8, 1/2500″ exposure.

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