And, We're Back To Rain!!

Today's inch plus of rain, so far, has pushed my yearly total to over 77"...and it's still raining with even more to come. Forecasts call for today's mess to move offshore later on with a clear and warmish day tomorrow. Clouds are back Sunday, likely rain will stay south of here, before another good little soaking comes through on Monday; seems right for a finish to 2018. The promised warm front has finally moved into Louisa, 42 degrees when I started dog walk #1 and 52 degrees when we returned, warmer but much wetter.
Cleanup and searches continue in Indonesia after the erupting, collapsing Anok Krakatau created a tsunami that trashed the Sunda Straight region, separating the ends of the islands of Java and Sumatra. Warnings, being heeded, have caused thousands to move inland out of a potential tsunami strike zone. Not sure what that volcano, or others, are doing with the government shutdown. USGS/Smithsonian volcano site has not been updated and with congress gone and a New Democratic house coming in, it is unlikely that will change with the big, whiny, happy to shut it down, baby pretending to be in charge.  Etna was in the news a couple of days ago, blasting ash and oozing lava, forcing evacuations and diverting air traffic near the island.

If you are looking around

As your chips are going down

And you wonder who's the easy mark

Let me help get you out of the dark

Before you lose another money lump

You're the idiot, the mark, the Chump!

The last 7 days of quakes show some hot spots (yea, it's a volcano term but...) with the big shake scene, again, at the Pacific/Australian plate boundary zone. The Caribbean is pretty shook up, too and the aftershocks continue in Alaska and up Kamchatka way after a 6+ quake earlier in the week. Meso and South America have also, not unusually, been shaky. Today has been rather shaky but nothing major - unless it's near your house!!
There is a momentary lull in the rain here but I don't think we are done yet. Maybe it will be clear by early tomorrow morning to see the, by then, last quarter moon as it approaches brilliant Venus. Antares, Scorpio's heart and Jupiter are below Venus and Mercury is fast fading from view. Mars is the only planet in the evening sky but has lots of bright company in the winter sky. The Summer Triangle still high up in the west after dark as the Winter Hexagon is rising in the east. Get out for a peek before the clouds return Sunday and linger into the new year.
No real excuse for no TOE on Boxing Day or yesterday, just never got there. I bet you did just fine for 2 rotations! If not, get up and out, rain or dry and roam about on your big planet, Today On Earth.

Just one more Donnie Johnny the Chump thought:

Quickly a lame duck

Can't find anyone to hire

No one left to blame