Boreas, god of the north wind, is in charge in most of the US today and it feels closer to winter than fall. As the center of the huge high pressure dome moves east and the Boreas calms down tonight the cold air is going to settle to the ground we're in for a FREEZE!! The end of summer! The low temps will be short lived and the warmth to follow (relative warmth) will kick off Indian Summer. It's layer season, enjoy.
A quiet-ish day on the shaky planet, only 3 above magnitude 5 today but the 5.1 quake off Trinidad & Tobago, on the southeast edge of Caribbean plate where it crashes into the North American plate, is a reminder that any plate boundary is going to have quakes. And, even old boundaries or sometime non-boundaries can move around, it's just on a different time scale than we are. A forty-fifth high school reunion last night was an interesting reminder of that time always moves on fact.
The moon, bright and gibbous last night, will be Full on Wednesday just past noon. That is the Hunter's moon, not hard to understand where that name comes from as we transition from black powder to full on gun season here in Va. The bright moon will wash out the Milky Way for a few days allowing just bright stars and planets visible. Bundle up and get out and enjoy. Or bundle up and get out and wander out in the warm sunlight, Today on Earth.
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