One More Cool, Sunny Day

A fairly cool country, coast to coast, for the last Thursday of Rocktober with big rain from Texas to the Dakotas, but no snow. That big rain mess will slide east today and by tomorrow afternoon we will be visited by what is the remains of Hurricane Willa and a cluster of lows from the North Pacific, as it becomes a nor'easter. Big rain should be done by Saturday morning but it will be into early next week before all the wetness is gone; Halloween should be clear. Temps will stay well below the upper 60's average until November.
The volcano list is down to a dozen and a half - and still no Kilauea - but some reliable erupting mountains are still there, or back. Etna is cranking it up again in Italy, Krakatoa is still gassy and being watched carefully along with 4 others in Indonesia, Aira in southern Japan is still/always on the list these days but has a neighbor just to the south fired up, as well, this week. Fuego is still erupting in Guatemala and rains in the area are forming lahars that are still making it impossible for residents to return to anywhere near that beast. Piton de la Fournaise on Reunion Island off East Africa is also still spewing fresh Basalt onto that island. Sabancaya in Peru is also, still fired up. Russia's Kamchatka adds 3 to the weeks list and Veniaminof in the US Aleutians is giving good reason to detour your plane out of its area.
Today, to this point, is the quietist day I can remember on the quake list; not one quake of magnitude 5, whoa!! That's a quiet day. That will change!
 The Hunter moon made a lovely, orange rising last evening with still bright but very low Jupiter just above the setting sun on the opposite side of the sky. Mars is still bright and red but we are pulling away from our next planet out neighbor so it is farther and farther west each night. Saturn is out there but dim and I didn't linger (or look while driving)and even spot that last night. Increasing clouds tonight will likely make star and planet viewing tough but the bright, now waning gibbous moon will still light up the thickening clouds. Get out for a look this evening because it's going to be wet Friday.
A visit last evening to Linny and Nancy reminded me what a musician is. He got out his guitar and just started playing and singing and turned my words into a pretty nice song: Don't Want No Megasite Here. Amazing! Sounds pretty good, should be fun at the next board of supervisor meeting although minds seem pretty made up after the get together Tuesday night. Nothing but people against and still 4 members seem set on this ridiculous waste of tax dollars and ruination of a lovely, quiet part of our county. Idiocy and hidden agendas rule in American politics. We have to hope for the beginnings of a return to progress in 12 days with the mid-term elections. Because the racist, misogynist morons in charge in DeeCee need to go. Get out and help do something about it, Today on Earth.
The Dogwoods are turning...