Friday, July 13, 2012

A Winddown To a Lovely Week

After a blast furnace start, July gives the East Coast a heat and humidity break (and lots of rain to the south) but that will change starting tomorrow. Today will be the last day with low dew points and mid-80's temps. Enjoy!!
The world is still shaking but mostly along the boundaries of its plates and nothing too wild even there. The list of EARTHQUAKES could be from most anytime, all usual suspects. The VOLCANO list is the same: Hierro, Popo, Kamchatka, Japan, Indonesia, Kilauea, the Ring of Fire and none looking ready to blow, just the usual steam and rumbles. I'd still stay a safe distance.
The waning crescent moon will have a 3 morning rendezvous with Jupiter and Venus as it slides through Taurus on its way to New next Thursday - but you'll need to be up early, there is just not that much dark with the north end of the planet tipped to the big sun. Clear skies will show Saturn and Mars low in the west at sunset with Spica (the Big Dipper's handle arcs to Arcturus and then you spike on to Spica). We are pulling away from those two planets and nightly observations will allow you to watch that show. They are clustered even tighter later in August.
Get out on the big rocky world, today on earth.

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