Humidity Going Down, Volcanoes Blowing Up

The heat of June continues here in central Va. but a cold front (but not really cold) passing through today will change the wind direction and drop the humidity for a few days. Then the HOT air that is baking the southwest creeps this way for next week and we move back into the 90's with humidity. Shouldn't be too surprising as a week from today is the summer solstice; this week and next will be the longest days of the year. Yesterday afternoon was the New Moon and tonight with clear skies and a good look west you might catch the one day old, waxing crescent just left of Mercury, just after sunset. A better moon view will be tomorrow when the still tiny crescent is below bright Venus. The first official weekend of summer will showcase the now gibbous moon hanging out with Jupiter high up in the south.
The Ring of Fire is living up to it's name this week with almost 2 dozen volcanoes on the active list. Fuego and Kilauea are still the wildest - 600+ homes destroyed in Hawaii and the state still increasing in size as lava pours into the Pacific and lahars, nasty volcanic mudflows, continue to stifle rescue/recovery efforts in Guatemala where the death toll stands at 110 but with more than that missing. Neither volcano shows much in the way of backing off with eruptions. Indonesia and Papua New Guinea top the week's list with 4 exploding mountains each but eruptions are ongoing from New Zealand, through the islands of Vanuatu, Japan, Russia's Kamchatka, the Aleutians of Alaska and into Mexico where Popo still rumbles, Fuego and Pacaya in Guatemala and two more in Ecuador. Other than a 5.3 magnitude quake with an eruption in Hawaii, the variety of quakes around the Ring and into the Asian/Indian subcontinent collision zone don't relate to the eruptions...that we in our limited insight know of. Plenty of action to go and see if volcano chasing is your thing.
Today's morning dog walk stirred up a doe and her fawn; mom coughing/screeching at us before taking off. The large brown dog gave chase but only enough to let them know he's around, he's more of a bird dog than deer, if it has feathers, he's after it. The mosquitoes and flies weren't too bad today, but I'm wearing a long sleeve hoodie - very light weight - to keep the bloodsuckers at bay. A northwest breeze and drier air is turning it into a lovely couple of days, get out and enjoy the pleasant air, today on Earth.