Tuesday, November 27, 2018

And, Mo' Rain, Then Warm, Now Cold

The roller coaster ride that is November continues, 60's Sunday, little rain and 50's for half of Monday, cold front whips through and Tuesday starts in the 20's creeps into the 40's but with Boreas, the god of the north wind kickin' it, feels more like the 30's. Back into the 20's tonight with another chilly day coming tomorrow. Mild air and rain are likely back for the weekend, which kicks off December. They're skiing in Colorado and still digging out from a little blizzard from KC to Chicago.
8 of 38 of the quakes in the last 24 hours have been magnitude 5 or above: near the equator on the Mid-Atlantic ridge, Fiji and New Caledonia are all shook up today, offshore Mexico had some subduction zone activity and PNG was rocked again, with a good little shake just off Madagascar...and, thanks oil industry: Oklahoma.
The moon is gibbous, shrinking toward 3rd quarter and Mars is it for planets in the evening sky, joined earlier and earlier by the brilliant stars of winter with the Pleiades and Aldebaran leading the way up from the eastern horizon. The Milky Way and Summer Triangle, clouds willing, should be lovely in the northwest after sunset. Bundle up and get out and check out your planet, Today or Tonight on Earth.
How about a little haiku...
Over six feet of
Rain in two thousand eighteen
A wet and wild year!

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