Fall Arrives And It Feels Like, Fall

Our tilted planet was, for the first time in 6 months, not tilted relative to the sun yesterday at 9:54pm EDT and Fall began in the northern hemisphere, Spring in the southern. Last night the sun set due West and the sun rose due East this morning; with the clouds now blanketing the east coast, that view of the cardinal points was quite obscured. Maybe I'll get things lined up for my own little Stonehenge at the Spring Equinox. The equinoxes (means equal night)are the days of 12 hours of light and dark, equal night, but that's not quite the case. We have an atmosphere that bends light so there was a little more light yesterday than dark. The equal daylight/night day is this Wednesday.
The clouds over the region are with a cold front that is working through the mid-Atlantic today and likely to stall, leaving us in a cloudy chance of showers forecast for the next few days. It's in the upper 50's outside, we're on the cool side of the front right now. Temps are expected to rise later in the week but an even stronger cold front will really make it feel like fall for next weekend.
Since I checked, the 6.2 quake in Guam has been downsized to 5.9... that makes it an even half dozen quakes today (so far) in the magnitude 5 range. The Dominican Republic was shaken by a 5.2 quake today, the spot most likely to have much damage from their quake.
The moon will be full late Monday night, Jupiter and Venus are getting closer, but lower in the west but catch them just after sunset. Mars and Saturn still hang up in the south-southeast. Chatting with some friends last night I explained how I had learned the patterns of the night sky (such that I have learned...) was going outside as the sky got dark and watching the lights come on, brightest first and then one by one dimmer and dimmer as the sky darkens. Then you see the patterns our ancestors saw sitting around cook fires, that's where the patterns and their stories came from. Go out well after dark and there are so many stars (where we live, anyway) that's it's hard to pick out the patterns that are the constellations.
Check it out later in the week, when you're not being rained upon (or tonight if you have clear skies) but you're not going to melt, go out and check out things, Today On Earth.