Sunday, January 8, 2006, 10:55 am: Another great, and very cool, Maine Sunday morning. Just minutes ago the thermometer rose above zero degree Fahrenheit.

One thing I’ve noticed, particularly because I am “from away” is when I stop in for gas in Van Buren or Madawaska, I usually buy a bottle of soda [I love that caffeine]. When I take the bottle out of the store’s reach-in refrigerator, the drink seems warm. The drink, of course, is actually very cold, but above freezing. However, I just walked in from temperatures that can be well below zero; sometimes even minus 20 or 30 degrees Fahrenheit.

In case readers are wondering why I insert the word Fahrenheit with the temperature, this is because some of the readers are in Europe, Canada and other metric countries where they use centigrade/Celsius.

To convert Fahrenheit to centigrade: (5/9) * (Tf-32) = Temp. Centigrade

To convert centigrade to Fahrenheit: ((9/5) * Tc) + 32 = Temp. Fahrenheit

Current values from our Vantage-Pro weather station at 10:55 am:

Temperature: 1 degree Fahrenheit

Barometer: 30.10 and rising slowly

Humidity: 66%

Winds: Calm

Visibility: Generally clear with scattered clouds

Low temperature since midnight:
-12.2 degrees F. at 7:42 am

High wind since midnight: 5 mph at 12:04 am