One More Day Before the Rains

While there is a slight chance of showers today - the cloud cover outside seems to lean in that direction- the real rain show will begin tomorrow and really kick it up Sunday as two big systems stall/lock over the mid-Atlantic for not only the weekend but much of next week. Forecasts range from 1/2" to over 6" for the period (with the usual certainty of weather forecasts) so if you have dry weather things to get done (cutting your dry grass...) today is the day to get it done. And, today is still fairly comfortable with lower humidity; temps won't be high during this wet stretch but dew points will once again make for oppressive conditions for outside adventures even without rain falling.
Several non-Ring O Fire volcanoes are fired up this week: Kilauea, especially fissure 8, continues to blast and ooze lava on the big island, both Etna and Stromboli are stirred up in Italy, Icelandic volcanologists are noting and a bit wary of one of there sleeping giants that is showing expansion and has been for awhile and Piton de la Fournaise is once again belching basalt north of Madagascar. Krakatoa's continued unrest has warnings still in place as it stirs again at the entrance to the Sundra Strait between Sumatra and Java. Fuego is not on the week's list...but there are several erupting mountains in South America, Alaska, Kamchatka and elsewhere in Indonesia.
Today's quake list (still hundreds in Hawaii) also includes two quakes at magnitude 6.0: PNG and Alaska with a few others along the usual plate boundaries. Stay loose as the big restless planet can start shaking at any time.
I'm attaching another shot of last night's spectacular sunset. If the clouds give us a break tonight, the barely gibbous moon will be hanging just above Jupiter, both in Libra. Should be a lovely combo.
Hope you get out and enjoy the less humid day, you likely won't have another coolish, dryish day in July. But, any day is still a good one to get out on the planet, especially Today on Earth.