Another Deluge & More Summer

Yesterday's heat and humidity, egged on by the recently stalled front oozing back north, sparked several showers here in south-central Louisa but the one just as the sun was settling in for the night turned into a deluge. 2.2" in the gauge at the tirehouse and the HersheyDog creek rolling was the result of that storm that just parked over the area and dumped rain. Today is still warm and humid but the cleansing of the air by the storm made it a little more pleasant early on; the relentless sunshine is fast changing that with current temp of 82 and likely to rise a few more degrees. That heat and yesterday's moisture will create conditions to spawn more storms - today's intensity and chances, always a best guess.
Kinda like the forecasts of Louisa mega-industrial site proponents:

Increased tax dollars

Outweigh ruined neighborhoods

Politicians say!

Last night saw the moon at 3rd quarter, rising about 1am. Don't feel like being up then, check it out in tomorrow's mid-morning western sky. If the storms stay away, the arc of planets is still out there and lovely. Brightest Venus and Jupiter grow slowly closer in the west but set earlier and earlier this month and still bright, red-orange Mars and much dimmer golden Saturn gradually drift apart as September progresses. Got a telescope, this is the month to check out both Uranus and Neptune in the mid-night darkness.
A few earthquakes today - interesting line across Indonesian to Papua New Guinea and this past week saw two quakes in the magnitude 6 range and one at 7.1. No quakes in the continental US above 4.5 for the week, so, we got that going for us.
The week also saw massive celebrations of two massive lives with the recent passing of two American legends: Aretha Franklin and John McCain. It was pleasant to have the news dominated by amazing accomplishments of actual heroes, both of whom worked through obstacles the world and America threw at them and their own personal weaknesses, to make the world a much better place for all of us. No tweets is good tweets.
Jalepeno poppers are on tonight's potluck menu, and I'm guessing more planning for the board meeting Tuesday. So, gotta finalize the poppers and get a big brown dog out again, Today on Earth.