Snow Coming?

The TOE returns after a very confusing poem about the earliest sunset... I was even somewhat confused, especially about how to get out of the mess I had created, with rhymes. The position the Earth is in 2 weeks before and after the solstice is the ideal position to block the sun's light as we turn away from(Thursday) and as we turn toward (Jan 4th)the sun. I'm betting there are diagrams on the wild and wooly web to explain it better than I did, sorry. I had fun writing the poem, so...
The last couple of days have continued the late fall trend of quite chilly mornings and not really warm afternoons.  Today, with clouds moving in ahead of the storm, stayed a little cooler than yesterday. Tomorrow, will likely bring some snow here; how far north will the storm get? That will either make this a bust or shut down school and normal life for a day or two.  There will be weather and we'll know (as I've been saying about these events for decades) by Monday what happened. What ever falls, be fine with me! A nice little snow would settle the leaves I have just cleared (hopefully the last fall blowing) off the trails; the moss, freshly revealed, would love a little snow, or any moisture.  Sunday will likely not be fun in North Carolina and southwest Va. We will probably skate by.
Since the 7.5 quake near New Caledonia earlier in the week and Alaska's 7.0 quake last week, the planet has seen mostly aftershocks in those locations and quakes in the 4-5 range around he Pacific rim. Same with volcanoes: Veniaminof in Alaska, Popo in Mexico, Krakatoa in Indonesia are the stars on the week's list of 19 active volcanoes with none in Guatemala (no Fuego!)but two in Costa Rica and now well over a month with no action from the Big Island of Hawaii.
The New moon was yesterday, early. A ridiculously thin crescent was next to Saturn very low in the southwest tonight (not seen here with clouds) and will continue waxing, the growing crescent sliding by Mars (maybe clear by then) by midweek. A month from now, the next New moon will graze the sun's shadow for a partial solar eclipse for the northern Pacific and northeast Asia. Two weeks past that (January 21st) the moon will move into Earth's shadow for a total lunar eclipse visible in the America's. Details to come as we get closer to that event. Until then, get out and check out your, potentially snowy world, Today (or tomorrow) on Earth.

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