SUN!! Whoa!!

The sun has returned and it's bright!!🌞 But, after 5" of rain over the last couple of days it is most welcome. But, as with sunshine and even with it lower in the sky, it is still summer, so today will be warm here in Va. And, likely more humid than has been forecast for the current dryish atmosphere, so much water to evaporate and add to the air's moisture level. Another little front passing through today is promised to lower humidity another step tomorrow.
While I got 3 1/2" of rain yesterday, most in a short but intense midnight storm, just to the west, Louisa got hammered with 5"+ and that quickly pushed the South Anna River out of it's banks for at least the 4th time in 2018 and as high as I've seen it (from longer term residents, it has been higher, so high it isolated the Roundabout Rd bridge that I drove over yesterday). The bridge at Yanceyville Mill was underwater again yesterday, but that is often the case with most any flooding.
And, while that shut down schools here yesterday and delayed them today, that is nothing compared to the small inland sea of water currently flushing North Carolina. And, many rivers there have not yet crested and are forecast not to be back in their banks until next week. As I suggested well before Flo arrived, this would and has become this year's and their Harvey. The new normal for storms? Normal is a bad word to use for the Earth, there is no normal. Only chaotic variation on the same themes based on heat/water input on that day. And, while we were watching and focused on Flo, Southeast Asia was being devastated by Mangkhut, a much, much, much bigger storm. Onward into the new future!

Hurricane Flo's gone

Leaving devastation here

And there, but now clear!

Today's quake list has about 50 shake's so far (about average for this time of day) but nothing bigger than magnitude 5.4 and most in the 4's. Still plate boundaries, and the usual places but power level is down a bit. New volcano list tonight, so I'll check on those for tomorrow.
With clear skies on the east coast, the sky viewing will be excellent tonight. The star's of the show will be the Moon and Mars, the moon just 4 degrees above the rusty red planet. Much dimmer Saturn is off to the right/west of the Moon/Mars pairing and I spotted Jupiter, still bright in the west but I was too late getting out last night to catch Venus.  Venus is catching up with Earth in our chases around the sun and will not catch us until October 26th but will be completely out of viewing sight by Oct. 7.
Venus is a little below the ecliptic these days added to the early setting and northern hemisphere view issues. So, check it out tonight! Even with the bright moon, the clear, dark skies here allowed me to see wisps of the Milky Way last night, pretty tough to see with a bright moon.
Another reason to stop the industrial mega-site the county wants to put in our neighborhood. We live in one of the last places on the east coast, that is both close to cities but still with very dark skies. I and many others are going to keep battling to preserve our lovely evening view, and rural county. Growth doesn't have to be bigger, it can just be better, Today on Earth.