A magnitude 6.1 quake shook things up in the Land of the Midnight sun, north of Anchorage, south of Denali. Likely not much damage done, not many people or buildings up there but a quake like that is always a good reminder; you live on a very dangerous plate boundary. Just off the southern end of New Zealand with a 5.0 quake today, Cyprus with a little reminder quake and the other quakes today are where there are quakes most every day, you know, Kansas, Indonesia, OK, Peru, Texass, Chile', Idaho, Puerto Rico...
Our 3 days of rain and cool has moved offshore and High pressure is in charge this Memorial Day. Temps started in the 40's but will climb into the 70's today and 80's for the rest of the week. Storm chances close to nil here until days into June. The southern plains remain under attack from the storms of spring(freaking frackers), trailers always a bad idea but in Tornado Alley; bad family/life planning.
Only 131 TrumpVirus deaths (reported) yesterday, 7,400+ new cases, trends continue downward. Travel and parties and America wide open, with the honor system in place(not vaccinated wear a mask) sounds great, seems great but the TDS* lying to them selves about most everything aren't vaccinated and have never worn masks so sadly I foresee a spike, if only the unvaxed die, I'm good with that; Darwin got it right with Natural Selection.
Solar CME will mostly miss Earth, the mostly part will stir some auroras in the southern high latitudes (too much sun up north). Moon light in the middle of night was a little bit of a shocker, waking my big dog. A thin waning gibbous orb was sitting below Saturn in the pre-dawn sky today, will be below Jupiter tomorrow morning..for early risers. Bright Venus rules on low in the west-ish after sunset, much dimmer Mars, still above, Mercury is really low and really dim, you'd need special skills to find it, the little planet's big month is over.
And finally, today is Memorial Day, set aside to remember those fallen defending our country in our many wars. Part of that remembrance should certainly include the 600,000 (maybe a million???) Americans killed by a virus originated/created in China but so poorly mismanaged by our then poser president. He declared war on the virus then denied it even existed; his mess still a rampaging infection in our country. Too many guns, owned by too many angry, racist dumbasses that think anarchy is a great idea is not a good base for democracy. Mass shootings almost a daily norm in the "Land of the Free". Republican party's only plan, suppress voting to maintain minority rule..and stockpile guns and ammo. Idiots looking for enemies in their neighborhood while Russia and China work their insidious evil, fueling our internal fires, not pretty, Today On Earth.
*TDS - TrumpDickSucker
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