Chill Remains, Clouds Return!!

Clouds from the snow/rain storm rolling through the deep south have moved into Va.; no hint of sun(or snow) here and still stuck in the 30's. We appear to be too far north for any of the winter time festivities; my guess: whatever schools are open (likely too many) in dixie today, are having a snow day, don't take much!

Sun is forecast to return later this week, coolish days, chilly nights, pretty average January, especially in a warming world, still no temp here yet this winter in the teens.

8 quakes at or above mag. 5 today, scattered about along both converging and diverging plate boundaries, new crust forming as old is destroy; an Earth 101 primer. No tsunami warnings even in Aleutians. India and Indonesia likely dealing with local quake issues. Croatian aftershocks continue, Turkey, too. And, of course, Puerto Rico!!

Sun is spot free for over a week. Moon is New on Wednesday, more tidal issues for coastlines although our satellite is just past perigee, its closest approach. I was a few minutes too early to spot Jupiter last night, a tougher task every night as we slowly tilt back sunward adding a minute to sunset every day this week; a long ways to summer lighting but getting better...and, we pull away from the Gas Giants.

TrumpVirus daily death count is down, typical for Sunday; still 1,177 more Americans are dead. California joins TX in the 30K dead club. New York still leads with 39K+ but was already above 30K from the early surge. The other two, and many more, with thousands of mask-less idiots wandering, partying, spewing death, living in denial, in so many ways. US will pass 375,000 deaths later today and 23 million cases mid-week! Nice job America, yeah, you made us great again donny. Great place to come and die!!

Big Brown Dog is at his girlfriend's, working on getting back into full play shape. He was worn out yesterday after a 4 hour morning romp!! And, congrats to the Cleveland Browns for their ass kicking of the much overrated steelers!!

You know the rules: Adapt, Migrate or Die! To avoid the latter, continue first rule and avoid the second; masks on, stay apart..or home, Today On Earth!!

Texas snow!!