A weekend without snow or sleet or nasty cold or rain or some version of all of that, quite the welcome relief here in central Va. While the Great Lakes remain mostly frozen and the northern US snow covered, England flooded and California cooking, government overthrows in Ukraine (get out Putin!), Thailand and Venezuela, here is the Old Dominion we are enjoying warm sunshine and the snow is gone. Could be time for an aftershock!!
Winter will return next week with a little snow and another shot of polar cold but today, on this part of earth, we get a glimmer of hope that winter will end and the heat and humidity and bugs will be back.
Hope you get out and enjoy it. Tomorrow will have a few more clouds around ahead of the next front but will continue the warmth; months have passed since a nice weekend. Almost 3 months since a full week of school!! Pretty crazy here on the third rock out from the nearby star.
The reflection of sunlight off our moon will show a quarter of that orb lit at 12:15 today, the 3rd quarter moon. The moon has had lovely encounters with Mars and Saturn during the wee hours of the last week and will be above brilliant Venus in the morning dawn on Tuesday and just below on Wednesday. A good look at the east and some binocs might let you glimpse a thin crescent with Mercury very low on Thursday morning. The moon will be new 3 hours into March next Saturday. Jupiter, still in the middle of Gemini, dominates the evening sky but has lots of bright company as the stars of winter still dazzle. Spring is on the way: the big dipper is standing on its handle in the east at dark as the great bear begins to stir from its winter slumber below the northern horizon at dark.
Plenty of volcano action although Kelut has settled down a bit after killing 8 and displacing tens of thousands on Java. Sinabung is still going at it on Sumatra and Tungurahua is fired up in Ecuador while Ubinas shakes and belches next country down in Peru. Etna continues on Sicily, lava oozing all about and while the rest of the ring of fire is not quite as eruptive as the aforementioned mountains there is still lots of rumbling and spewing ash going on out there. Visit at your own peril!!
There are, of course, earthquakes but no major shakes or disturbances but in the US activity in Missouri and some shakes at Yellowstone bear watching. Central Va is quiet, a trend I'd like to see continue, today on earth and into the distant future.
Enjoy the respite from winter, today on Earth.
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