The heat and showers of July continue; with a brief respite for Friday and part of Saturday as a slow moving "cool" front works it's way south through Virginia. Mid to upper 90's heat and high humidity has made for a fairly uncomfortable week but clouds today are holding temperatures down. Showers have been hit and miss (miss, so far here at the tirehouse) all week with some spots getting downpours but overall drought conditions continuing over much of Va. as well as the entire US. Fires continue out west. Most all of Va. should get some wetness over the next couple of days.
The CentVaEqZone is back on the world map with a 1.9 shake in the wee hours of Tuesday morning centered in western Hanover County. Planes mapping the rocks/faults/magnetism/geology of the zone have been flying low over the area all week. A 6.0 quake in the Kuril Islands north of Japan, south of Kamchatka is the only red on the world list (and no surprise there) that reads as a normal who's who of active plate boundaries.
All the volcanoes on the world active list (usgssivolcanoes) are usual visitors. The Ring of Fire is!
In the short, dark sky of summer, the moon was new yesterday and will slide by Mars and Saturn in the west as we get into next week. Venus and Jupiter are bright in the (clear) morning sky but you have to be up early - before the sun.
Hope for rain, our part of the planet needs it. The British Isle would like a break, they have had a "low jet stream" wet, cool summer. But, get out and check out your planet, Today on Earth.
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