December Awaits - Rain Gone, Cold Coming

As is usual on this day... my column is it!!

December - On & Off Earth

For millennium, humans worldwide have held celebrations leading up to and around the Winter Solstice. Human awareness of the days growing no shorter and the sun “standing still” are, next to fire, metallurgy and agriculture, the base for all human knowledge, or science, to follow. Every culture and creed holds end of the year celebrations during this holiday season. This year will certainly continue those traditions, with twists and changes yet to be seen or known.

As I began to write this month’s column, I realized we have used up our quota of superlatives in describing this year. I can now only muster a weary sigh to cover 2020. The same words, (unprecedented!!) seemingly reused daily to cover the happenings this year, just don’t do the job anymore.

Keepers of records have been busy this year: our winter passed without one day completely below freezing and no real snow; Australia kicked off 2020 with record high temperatures and massive wild fires, trends that would move north with the seasons. Down-under also saw monster hurricanes that shifted to the northern oceans in turn - I’m still a little shocked our record smashing hurricane season is actually over. All, in your face signs of the new realities of a rapidly warming planet.

2020 has also seen record citizen involvement, millions marching against racial injustice and inequalities, voter turnout surpassing any seen before, thousands stepping up to donate and distribute food to the millions struggling to survive amidst the still raging pandemic. And, most Americans, happy to wear a mask, doing that small, easy thing to protect themselves and their fellow citizens.

With all the turmoil swirling about, I still realize how lucky I am to be able to mostly stay home and wander the woods with a very good dog. The views in the forest have changed, only the evergreens and a few red oak leaves up high and beech leaves down low remain, the rolling nature of the piedmont terrain now easily seen. My hope continues to be that everyone can get outside for a daily walk on the planet, a brief respite from the realities of 2020.

As I wrote, way back in my first column in February, I’m often outside at and after sunset, enjoying the moon, planets and stars as they “turn on” in the growing darkness. 

While Mars still beams bright and rusty high in the southeast the real show in December is Saturn and Jupiter. The two bright “stars” in the southwest at dusk have been sky neighbors for most of 2020 and will draw ever nearer all month.

On the 21st, the evening of the Winter Solstice, they will be closer than has been seen on Earth in nearly 800 hundred years, so close as to be observable in the same field through a telescope. Get out at dusk and watch this once in a lifetime planetary conjunction.

And, stay safe. There is still much for each of us to do to make this a happy holiday season. As is the rule, there is nothing but change coming; today, tomorrow and into 2021. This Holladay would like to wish each of you the merriest and safest of holidays and nothing but the best for all of us in the coming year.

Stay safe, be smart, mask on, stay apart - TODAY ON EARTH!!

A Sunny Sunday So Far

The temp bottomed out at the freezing mark this morning but has climbed into the 50 as I type this, it won't go much farther, low 60's will be it. Tomorrow may get a little warmer but it will be very wet, warm air as the storm in the SW Gulf states heads northward; looking like a very wet Monday, at least for the first half of the last day of November.

Quite the month it has been, it got off to a good start; Joe Biden won the presidential election!!! There was no uprising (yet) from donny's militia racist idiots and yes, the douche bag in chief still won't admit he lost and is screwing things up as much as can for the new administration..but, he is going to go..in handcuffs would be nice but just without gunfire will be a hope.

The bad new for November has been the continuing stupidity of TDS* still, in their fox watching ignorance, maskless, spreading the TrumpVirus far and wide. Stupidity example: patients, about to go on a ventilator, denying that their illness is the TrumpVirus, as they head toward death, still sucking on the poison apple that is our current poser prez and his fox fools. Natural selection (something they also deny), always at work.

Another 150+K cases yesterday, another 1,000 plus dead..just another day here in the country made/pushed very far from great by the lack of leadership or concern for anyone but themselves in the fading debacle, still lying and crying about how badly they've been treated and that they won the election - the absolute worst of America on daily display.

Vanuatu had a mag. 5.5 quake earlier today but that is it, less than 30 on the list.

November's Full- Beaver - Moon will occur at about 4:30 tomorrow morning and the moon will graze the Earth's outer shadow - penumbra , not much to really see. It would be a partial solar eclipse if you were on the moon. The sunspots on our nearby star are still there, large and roiling; potential solar flare blast zones! Woooo! Saturn and Jupiter sneak closer and closer still, keep watching that once in a life time show!!

Stay safe, be smart, mask up, stay apart, Today On Earth.

*TDS - TrumpDickSuckers

Still Fine Solar Heating!

The trend is for gradual cooling, it is late November, before the big wet mass arrives here from the south very early Monday and then December will feel like..well, December. It already does in much of the country - it's 11 in Breckenridge right now, yes, it still early there but 11, that's chilly!! Easy to see why my buddy Jay, a non-skier, wants out!

Here, at the tirehouse, with most leaves gone (just the Red Oaks cling on) and the sun shining it is toasty warm and bright!! Thanks to our nearby star!! Go Sun!!

Another in a long line of light earthquake days, even Puerto Rico is fairly quiet. Sunspot AR2786 is changing (always), perhaps breaking in two, perhaps about to hurl massive, disruptive energy at Earth (well, its intentions are not toward Earth, the Sun has no intentions, it's just a star doing a star's thing, we just happen to be a nearby planet). Saturn & Jupiter continue sneaking closer and closer (from our view here on Earth - they remain a few hundred million miles apart); Mars still dazzles, the Moon waxes toward Full - Monday!!

And, in pathetic country news, there's the USA, formerly the world leader, now the world pariah, that no one wishes to enter. Another 200,000 infections reported yesterday - 200,000! Almost 1,400 Americans dead; yesterday! It being Thanksgiving weekend, most reports put those numbers, with many unreported, low. The idiots that scammed their way to DeeCee, on the pretense of protecting the citizenry, sit at home in their castles, built with our money, rub their fat white bellies and do nothing but line up more stock scams, make sure their lawyers have their assess covered and blame everyone and anybody but themselves. I'm sure our pussy ass bitch pretend prez is out cheating at golf, driving his cart onto the greens so his royal obeseness doesn't have to waddle too far. Pigs, all!!

Stay safe, be smart, mask on, stay apart, Today On Earth.

Greed, Debt Friday

What we have come to realize this year, our house of greed (cards) economy is based on shopping and partying; epitomized in today's street (ad) name, Black Friday. Called that because most retailers apparently are in the red until today, when the xmas shopping frenzy gets into full swing and stores are flooded with suckers dreaming of bargains. So, big business tops off their greed tank and the average American goes deeper into the debt cycle that our economy thrives on.

The partying segment has also been quite evident this year, bars and restaurants are a huge portion of the mostly unskilled job market and economy as a whole but also the perfect spreading site for the TrumpVirus. The young and dumb don't like being told they can't go out and party, faces uncovered, unconcerned about taking death home to the grandparents. Thanks, kids!

All the while, Earth spins on, with an atmosphere, slowly changed and poisoned by the waste products of big business greed, that continues trapping the heat beaming our way from our nearby, recently more active, star. The life sustaining oceans now polluted worldwide with our trash, in particular the oil derived plastic working its way into and up the food chain as well as ongoing indiscriminate killing of sea creatures of all shapes and sizes from yet broken down plastic trash.

Tens of thousands of years of ice, stored fresh water, continues the rapid melt, raising sea levels but lowering river levels, especially where most needed, badly overpopulated Asia. What does flow on the surface is also polluted with everything from flushed prescription drugs to industrial chemicals to invasive species.

Greed has a price, all feasts end. I fear the TrumpVirus debacle is just the tip of the iceberg as we continue to careen, full speed ahead on our human Titanic through the ice field. Hope that more and more will be part of the solutions, less of the pollutions..but, it ain't looking good.

Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic lead the world shake scene today. Otherwise, not much going on. Mild weather continues here in the southeast but December's arrival is forecast to be a stark dividing line 'tween Fall and Winter...albeit, likely just a short cool down, the planet just isn't that cold this far south anymore!

I can still see the sunspot, sitting at this table, inside, with eclipse shades, it's big; so far not too eruptive.

The moon and Mars were sweet in the evening sky last night, check it out tonight. Saturn and Jupiter are closing quickly; I can no longer get two fingers at arms length between the two, just one. They haven't been this close in hundreds of years and won't again for hundreds more, watch it happen, Tonight Off Earth!

Until then get out and enjoy the November warmth, safely, Today On Earth!!

Hope For A Safe, Happy Turkey Day!

Wow, there is a sunspot and it's big, easy to see with the rain and clouds gone through my eclipse glasses; big, massive, dwarfs Earth. Hope it doesn't get too wild and explosive. Time will, as always, tell.

Front is through, bigger storm center way north of here, next rain chance is Monday with December and winter like temps behind that boundary. But, a toasty warm Thanksgiving day! Let's hope a few families, intent on gathering, have a chance(and do) to eat outside. 181,000 new TrumpVirus cases yesterday with 2,313 more dead Americans - hopefully, all TDS* non-mask wearers..alas, that is likely not the case. More likely young idiots, killing their parents and grandparents, stupidity..always the parents fault!!

A 6.1 quake undersea down near Antarctica, Puerto Rico area with some larger than normal quakes but mostly no quake issues.

Volcano list with 18 this week: 5 in Indonesia, 4 up Kamchatka way, Meso and South America usual erupters, but, nothing looking ready go big. Give thanks for that.

Stay safe, be smart, mask on, stay apart - better a quiet Thanksgiving than an ICU xmas!!

But, a safely spaced walk in today's warmth, nice!! Today On Earth.

Thanksgiving Eve

Americans, again and again, prove their blatant stupidity and disregard for others; 176,000 new TrumpVirus cases with 2,203 more Americans dead - YESTERDAY!! Blowing up all the numbers from back in the spring all because millions of TrumpDickSuckers won't cover their fat, white faces with a mask!! Thanks, donny! How much more damage will he do over the next 56 days..he's slashing personal rights over corporate rights (like a corporation has any rights..) and slashing more environmental rules as I type - intent on doing as much damage as he can on his way out - setting himself up to then blame Joe Biden for all the damage he did; his little bitch, Mitch stays down on his knees just sucking away!! All should be tried and then shot for treason!!

3 quakes in the low 5's today, none causing much damage. Few shakes in US, some fracking related, some just Earth being Earth.

Cool, hazy day here but really pretty average for late November! Little rain coming overnight and early tomorrow but bulk of front and rain/snow will be north of here; forecasters do get it wrong, though..We'll see.

Never spotted a halo around the moon last night but conditions looked ripe for one. Planets faint through the haze, likely all out of sight with clouds this evening - too bad, Moon and Mars will be close!!

Sunspot cycle is cranking up, big blast from two just spinning into Earth view (and range).

Hope you aren't traveling, hope you care enough about friends and relatives to stay home, away from others but it appears millions will get in their rafts and float down the Egyptian river winding through the heart of America, Da Nile! Selfishness and denial, the American way - all encouraged by our 4 year nightmare of racism and greed personified in one of the most evil people ever to live on Earth - donny you'll give Adolph, Nero, Stalin and Chi a run for lowest of the low in history books to come, thanks for nothing!!

So, you got a brain, use it; stay safe, be smart (remember that big brain??) mask on, stay apart!

Today On Earth!!

A Cool, November-ish Tuesday

The high clouds ahead of the next system oozed in last night and kept temps from dropping too low, still down to 31.. Same cool air and high haze will make for a cool Tuesday. Clouds will continue to thicken as the system keeps heading east, arriving late Wednesday and into Thanksgiving morning before moving on leaving a warm, humid post-feast afternoon. Stay safe! (Although, millions seem insistent on traveling and carrying on the US super spreader tradition - this Thursday..supper spreader:)

Incredibly low quake numbers, only 23 worldwide, two in the low magnitude five range and both of those are deep sea fish events.

A huge cyclone (their hurricane) just hammered and trashed Somalia (not that a 1st world observer might recognize smashed in what is already a world enema site); the wild storming planet rages on, trying to spread the excess heat as we continue to dump CO2 into the atmosphere (it is actually down a little in this low travel year, but not much).

The sun's new cycle is stirring into more and more action; large spot (that would easily swallow Earth) is rotating into view, already spewing radio interfering energetic particles into space. Hope that it does not do so when pointed more Earthward - but, maybe that will kill the your virus, donny!

Another 179,000 cases in the USA yesterday! Death toll back up over 1,000 for the day. With 12.5 million total TrumpVirus cases, the US is far and away the world leader..so proud!! You sure made America great, donny.

The waxing, now gibbous moon slid 12 degrees closer to Mars overnight, Wednesday is the closest approach this moonth. Got a telescope? Apparently, there is a large dust storm on Mars, not to planet wide yet but showing signs of making the red planet a red dust ball. Saturn and Jupiter keep getting closer and closer in the SW ahead of their solstice rendezvous. Venus was still shining bright at 6:45 in this morning's dawn glow. Step out for a peak at the universe around you, if clouds allow, Today or Tonight On or Off Earth.

And, stay safe, be smart, mask on, stay apart!!

Thanksgiving Week, Thanks, Few And Far Between

With hundreds of thousands of new cases daily, over a thousand deaths/day everyday for much of November, it is hard to feel thankful in a country certainly far from great. At least we do have a new president, an actual leader coming, if we can survive the last futile gasps of a despot wanna be.. and who knows what crisis he will create and leave for the new administration.

At least no hurricanes or monster winter storms, (although that might help slow the travel of super spreaders that just have to do things the same way, no matter what) no powerful quakes, no sunspot issues yet, although that may be coming and volcanoes are spewing but nothing worrisome either!

The Front that went through overnight only spit a little rain, a bit of wind and although it will lower temps the sun is warming the tirehouse nicely!! Another shot of rain early on Turkey day seems the next wet spell; it, too, is likely to pass quickly with little fanfare here.

TrumpVirus hit closer to home yesterday; my neighbor just lost her brother this morning in a Chicago hospital, Illinois the new hot spot! Daughter of a friend in New Mexico now has TrumpVirus; she's doing ok, young and healthy helps; I hope for none of the debilitating long term effects that tens (hundreds?) of thousands suffer from having survived but far from recovered - fingers crossed for a new attack for donny, he deserves it more than anyone else, spineless, pussy ass bitch!

Stay safe

Be smart

Mask up

Stay apart

Today On Earth!!

Reality: Earth vs Humans

Fully two weeks after it became apparent Joe Biden won the election, by over 6 million votes and with the same electoral count that russian trolls helped install our current nightmare, the fat whiny baby still just pretending to be president and his sycophant TDS* deny reality, any reality. That he lost, that he's going to leave and that his legacy will be the TrumpVirus, in a week with over a million new cases and close to 10,000 deaths... this week, still the TDS* deny reality. Still not enough testing, still hospital staffs are crushed, still no plan from our "protecting" government. Still Earth does not care!

Much of the US is in a chill, typical of November, the southeast still languishing in relative warmth. Bouts of wet weather will roll across the company this week. Let's hope there is not a lot of travel(but 50,000,000 predicted to travel - and spread the TrumpVirus), but Americans have proved that they don't believe reality, think much of reality is a hoax and will do what ever they want. Sadly, the rest of us have to hope the fox watching inbreeds catch the TrumpVirus and kill themselves off; sad I have to hope for that but those TDS*, like their "leader", only care about themselves(and are traitors to the country from my view). Mixing selfish narcissism with ignorance, and here we are!! Earth, still, does not care.

Earth got a little shaky today, 4 quakes above magnitude 5 and a 6.1 quake off the coast of Chile'. No major issues seem to have occurred with any of those quakes. Puerto Rico, Alaska, Idaho and Hawai'i lead the US with 6, 8, 5 and 4 quakes, respectively, but all just reminders Earth is in charge.

Clouds here last night cut into sky viewing, one sunspot but not explosive so far and a comet is back after a 2,000 year adventure into the outer solar system but likely will be telescope visible only.

The big dog is back, time to get going, Today On Earth!!

*TDS - TrumpDickSucker

Same As It Ever Was!!

Let's just start off with, GOOGLE SUCKS!! So, quirky, often such a pain in the ass!! Should have stayed a search engine, but hey, greed and power and control...the American way! Please google, choke on my personal info and stick all your ads where the sun don't shine...unless you're a TDS* and go on shine a light up there, see if if helps with TrumpVirus, worked for Donny!

But, didn't work for another 1,947 Americans, another 200K with the virus - yesterday!! While our loser "leader" tries unsuccessfully to steal an election that he lost worse than Hillary did 4 years ago. Face it, donny, you've always been a loser, without daddy's money and lawyers you'd be in jail or living on the streets.

Still no help coming from DeeCee for any virus relief, on the way out losers still ripping up stability with friends and enemies alike around the world. In republican style, looking to leave as large a crap pile as possible, that they can then blame on new administration. 

Still no shame

Still no plan

Still sounds like

A republican

Planet a little shakier today, but still only into mid-magnitude 5 anywhere. Clouds ahead of a weak cold front make for a hazy day, but that return flow around the departing High will make for a warmish Saturday here. No storm with names, first time in awhile but there are a couple of systems in Caribbean being watched, 2020, year of storms, unlikely to be done!

The ecliptic is stunning at nightfall, Mars, the Moon, Saturn and Jupiter strung out for your viewing pleasure. Keep an eye on Saturn and Jupiter, if they seem to be drawing near, they are! Moving to a Solstice hookup!! Sun, facing us, still pretty quiet. No asteroid with Earth's name on them..that we know of:)

Big brown dog has returned from his visit, birds are glomming at the feeders (now that windows are cleaner, easier to see:) time for a stroll ahead of some English Premier League action! Ahhh, Saturday! Throw in a blues show tonight and all is good here at tirehouse! Hope you are staying safe!

Be smart, mask up, stay apart, TODAY ON EARTH!!

*TrumpDickSucker

Lovely Day With Another 2,000 Dead

Another 1963 Americans bite the dust yesterday (more likely actually drown in their lungs own bodily fluids)as ICU's fill and states shut down. Our "leader" and his bad of ghouls (Rudy, as lead ghoul) deny the will of the voters, stoking fear and telling the same baseless lies as their fox watching minions (TDS*) lap it all up, no way their loser could lose - remember he only won before, barely and because russian trolls convinced thousands not to vote for Hillary -idiots looking for any excuse to get out their guns and riot for a coup. Scary times continue, Today On Earth.

Here the weather is lovely, no real rain forecast until the next super spreader event, Thanksgiving. If you don't adapt, go ahead and migrate, lots more will die. At current rate we'll hit 300,000 by Christmas, maybe 350,000 by inauguration day, January 20th..of Joe Biden.

Really slow, low number of quakes today. Not much going on with the sun, Moon, Saturn and Jupiter were, again, gorgeous. Wild cirrus contrail clouds at sunset yesterday!! With moon, planets, spectacular!!

Time to get the smoker going and a turkey on, track down a dog and maybe cut the grass in a garden that is no longer there, Today On Earth!

Quarter Million TrumpVirus Deaths:(

1923, not a good year to find a legal drink in America, not a good number of Americans dead in one day, of a virus that was gonna be gone in April..as the Senate and loser prez sit on their fat asses and do nothing. Zip, no help, no plan all while continuing the fantasy that the loser won. As militia and other TDS* still whine and echo donny's lies (who is just echoing the lies he obsesses over on the fox, the alternative reality network). 172,000 new cases, hospitals overwhelmed, thousands wait for test - remember douche prez saying, "if you want a test you can get a test"..still a lie!!

That 1,923 number pushed the USA over 1/4 million dead from a virus, albeit a nasty virus, but not what should have happened in the country with the most advanced (arguable) medical facilities on Earth. But, we have a worse virus as president; an evil, insidious, immature, spoiled narcissist pretending to be president who's only goal over the last 4 years was to enrich and keep the spot light on himself. The spot has shined donny, too bad you haven't; the light revealing all the ugliness you believe and represent, with your fat, walmart shopping, racist, fox watching morons lapping it up..and feeling important and entitled! Sad times in America..but, you did lose the election, lost bigger than you won by and you are going, ya whiny, pussy ass bitch!! WORST PRESIDENT, EVER!!

Just heard a sad stat..over half of adult Americans have or are at risk for type 2 diabetes..half! What that really means is over half of adult Americans are unhealthy, fat (obese) pigs! Just look at a t***p rally or watch the crowd waddling out of any walmart...

Another slow quake day, none even in the 5 range, usual places..

Same with volcanoes, 16 on the list of 18 (2 there because Iceland has updated some systems) and it's the usual suspects -Stromboli going big in Italy, Peru's Sabancaya with an average 54 eruptions per day, Santa Maria & Pacaya still blasting away in Guatemala (hard to believe Fuego isn't..), 5 in Indonesia and 4 up Kamchatka way and same 2 Japanese islands getting bigger. White Island, off the north coast of New Zealand is stirring again, no tourist boats there these days!

Here the strong High pressure is sliding east, that meant the coldest start but a warming as air flow changes around to a southerly direction. If it was gonna freeze, it did!! No rain in forecast for days so get out and check out evening sky (or a sunny day).

Moon, Jupiter and Saturn a lovely string along the ecliptic last night!! Tonight the moon will be lower left of Saturn as the planets continue to inch closer together. Moon slides 12 degrees per day and two planets are now less than 5 degrees apart. No sunspots, but hints of one on sun's other side from solar orbiters on opposite side.

Here the returned dog naps, house finches glom at the feeders, gold finches are back around, too. Squawky blue jay and usual collection of downy's, red bellies, nuthatches, chickadees and titmice. Wrens dart here and there, yapping away! Happy to feed 'em. Time to get this Thirstday underway.

Stay safe, be smart, mask on, stay apart..or stay home, lots of TrumpVirus spreading dumbasses out there, Today On Earth.

A Late First Frost/Freeze

I'm still checking, but this is the latest freeze date I can find in 24 years of (less than perfect) weather data. 29 here this morning, no frost seen, really dry with serious High pressure (dew point is 22 and 30.53 for pressure) and not much wind, High on top of us. Yep, latest freeze I see..

Iota's remains continue across the MesoAmerica isthmus, trashing and flooding all along the way. Another storm (would be Kappa) brews in the still warm Caribbean.

Stromboli is blowing ash and spewing lava in Italy (not an uncommon event), another low to average day of earthquakes- couple at low 5's but no issues.

Saturn, Jupiter and the thin waxing crescent were lovely last night; moon closer still tonight, will be an even lovelier grouping next two nights and no rain or likely even clouds here. Mars still shines brightly, way up in the southeast at sunset, waiting for its lunar visit next Wednesday. Cool shot of Mercury on spaceweather.com, with a reddish tail of sodium vapor looking comet like..did not know Mercury had a tail!! All 5 visible planets are visible right now, 3 evening, 2 predawn.

Another 160,000 TrumpVirus cases in the US yesterday, yea, ho hum another 160K cases..another 1,583 dead Americans, ho hum...Lame duck, and I mean lame, poser in chief still in denial (a constant state for him, though) about getting stomped in election - he called it a landslide 4 years ago with same electoral count, when he also lost total vote. ICU's are filled all over the country as good vaccine news abounds -still months away - but dumbasses still won't do simple task, cover your fat, ugly face with a mask! Republicans gradually mentioning douche-in-chief lost election..yea, America's great..

Big brown dog naps nearby, refueling from morning romp but always ready to go, Today On Earth!!

Windy Here, Wild In Nicaragua

While with deal with a wild, windy day, a battle between air masses, Nicaragua and Honduras are, again, being trashed by a monster late season hurricane, Iota. Less than two weeks and 15 miles from where Eta came ashore, 155mph wind! It will not be pretty, in a country where government corruption, poverty and overpopulation had already created an armpit of a third world country. In normal times the US would already have help on the ground and be sending more but the petty douche bag pretending to be president (but you're gone in 64 days Punk'n Head) won't even help all the people in need (again, another mess of his creation - the TrumpVirus) in this country. You're on your own Nicaragua, although I guess they are getting help, just not from the US.

Cuz we have way more people dying every day than does Nicaragua - only 796 yesterday, a slow death day in the USA! Another 167,000 cases yesterday, states are shutting down, ignoring the pretend prez to try and slow the spread. Still folks whine, "why can't we let people drink in our bar til late..", that's when we make all our money! Well, that's also why the pandemic isn't slowing and I feel for them. The government, if they are going to shut things down, should be helping businesses and their employees out, alas, Donny and Mitch make more lame excuses and ignore the problem, again, that they have allowed to run wild.

Great job Donny, your legacy..yea, you didn't start a war (you also didn't end any and gave lots of land to your blow buddy Putin, among others - seeeeeya Hong Kong, nice!), but even without a war you managed to kill over a quarter of a million Americans! That's your legacy, Donny (despite what the fox says - they don't write history, just distort it). Oh yea, blew the deficit up, spread dictatorships worldwide (not democracy), deepened the divide in the country between lies and reality, science and conspiracy, encouraged racism and anarchist militias, haven't built a wall, even though you did steal money from the military to pad the pockets of your buddies to build crap on the border, you separated families looking for a life in America, putting the kids in cages and now you are bilking "donors" fighting an election you lost.

You should be in a cage, for ever, never to tweet again!! Will you kill 300,000 by the time you leave office? And, you are going to leave office, you whiny pussy ass bitch!! And, you ignored the reality of global warming, setting the stage to kill millions (billions?) more in the near future. You have set the bar so low, if there is someone worse, there will be no USA.

Basil, I win the bet, your boy (and he is a spoiled little boy) has done way more damage in 4 years than W managed to do in his 8 years of destruction. Again, the democrats are left to try and clean up a mess of republican greed making. They will, with no help, of course, from Mitch and his band of old, white, fat, spineless pussies!!

At least no earthquake problems, no big sunspots to fry the grid and no hurricane here although the storm shedding the northeast is close.

And, me, well I'm wrapping up my 66th trip around our nearby star! Woooo! Be nice to go out and celebrate but I'd like to see 67 so I'll remain hunkered. Hope you do, too. Stay safe, be smart, mask up and stay away from the TrumpDickSuckers (easy to spot, you can see their fat faces), Today On Earth!!

Iota to Cat. 5 - The New Normal

Hurricane Iota (#30 for the year!) has blown up to a category 5 storm - winds jumped from 85mph yesterday to 155mph today (another record for storms with rapid intensification) which is 2mph from Cat 5. This is just 2 weeks after Eta trashed Meso-America (before heading up to US for Florida and east coast wind and rain thrashing). These two storms might be the Earth's attempt at provided much needed birth control to the superstitious, crowded region. Another system nearby is being watched for the next storm. My outdoor basil is picked and now pesto - killing freeze coming tonight or tomorrow. That's 2 weeks later than average for last few years, which has drifted into November - October frosts more common 20 years ago!

The cold front that blew through here last night - without any real rain here - brought hurricane force winds to several spots northeast of here and left over a million without power. Many, in the know, believe we have already reached the tipping point on warming the planet; decades or centuries before all our excess CO2 will be dealt with by the planet. And, that is if we were to just stop today, ha..ha..ha..haaaa! We won't even put on a mask to slow a pandemic, think all these TDS* are going to stop commuting in their monster trucks?

Usual Sunday decline in TrumpVirus numbers and deaths??? Still, we are now well over 11 million cases with 246K dead - 1/4 million dead sometime this week! Still nothing in the way of help or leadership from a very old looking, pale, unhealthy, still fat poser president or his little bitch, Mitch. Nero killed and fiddled, Donny kills and cheats at golf, denying any blame, as usual.

The lying, obese, pussy ass bitch is still whining about all the fraud in the election - none of which has been found - while government officials, still doing their job, say this was the safest, best run election EVER! With all of whiny Donny's lies leading up to the election, the folks involved really stepped up, putting their own health (and their families) at risk to make American democracy work. Fat fox watching, anarchy dreaming, gun waving, racist mo-rons marched (waddled) demanding fascism this weekend, no doubt, driving their gas guzzling trucks back to their disability checks, diabetes meds and Medicaid today. As their hero refuses to show his taxes, wonder how many of fat Donny's sycophants are on some form of government assistance all the while bitching about welfare payments and lazy Mexicans. I know - seen first hand, how most folks that have come to this country illegally - how hard they work. Way harder than most, fatass, white Americans; that wouldn't do the jobs they do, anyway. All that meat Americans are stuffing in their obese faces was processed by underpaid, often cheated, immigrants. You can bet your Thanksgiving turkey was!!

Not cheating at golf, but crushing it, Dustin Johnson!! Congrats big guy, Tiger should have been the one honored to put the green jacket on you - maybe give him some pointers about fidelity! Nice 10 on #12 yesterday, Tiger!! 3 balls in Ray's creek, sweet!!

Early tomorrow morning, with nary a moon in sight, the annual Leonid meteor shower will peak. The moon, New yesterday, will make its moonthly appearance as a waxing crescent this week, 🌒 sliding up beside the teapot of Sagittarius tomorrow and Jupiter and Saturn on Wednesday and Thursday. Then gibbous, 🌔 our satellite will be below Mars on Thanksgiving eve. The sun is back to spotless, the magnetic disturbances rotating out of view here on Earth.

A mag. 6 quake in the Philippines likely caused some local issues, but no tsunami. Few San Andreas quakelets in Cali, Idaho is again, quite shaky but nothing above 4.1. Nevada and Puerto Rico with what has become the new normal quakes and the rest of the Ring O Fire, a pretty average looking day. Earth doing that plate tectonic thing.

The big dog is back, time for me to go, stay safe, be smart, mask up, stay apart, Today On Earth!!

Still Cruisin' The Egyptian River - Da Nile

They are fat, they got their gun

They just waddle, they can't run

Think it's just too much to ask

To cover their face with a mask

Living in the fox dream world

TrumpVirus still all a'swirl

Still cruisin' the Egyptian river

Thousands in beds all a'shiver

Another 1,210 Americans dead

All on you, prez Punk'n Head

Just hit 11,000,000 cases

245K dead, world, we out paces

Da Nile is the American way

We just brush reality away

Here's the real sticky wicket

71 mil voted fat, racist ticket

Obesity, stupidity, a bad mix

Joe, you got a lot to fix

But, more of us are with you, Joe

We know you see the way to go

Today On Earth

Masters golf is underway

Pulling for DJ all the way

No big quakes or weather issues

On the sun, no sunspot fissures

Hurricane Iota is about to crash

Into Nicaragua, their second bash

Here, front with wind all a'stir

Leaves a'flying for sure

Dog still out on his roam

Will I get him, will he come home

Time for coffee, cup # 2

Happy Sunday to you

Today On Earth

1,001 Blogs - TrumpVirus Explosion -11-14-20!

Another 181,000 TrumpVirus cases yesterday; another 1,389 unlucky Americans on Friday 13th! Texas will have lost over 20,000 before today is over..all as Punk'n Head prez denies he lost and vows to do nothing to help with the viral mess he created. For the worst president ever, his damage surpassing W's nightmarish 8 years in less than 4, he seems intent of making things even worse on his way (forced?) out. We can only hang on as he continues to unload his wrath and blame, molesting the country as he does the flag or any woman he can get near. Hang on folks, the TrumpVirus is far from done!!

At least another day of sun, temps more November like, chilly start, cool day. Iota is now officially a tropical storm, by tomorrow likely to be a major hurricane headed for a second November thrashing of MesoAmerica. Forecast predict Iota will not be the last for this season; only 30 so far, why just break the record when you can destroy it. (Will 2021 be a repeat, seems the trend on a rapidly warming planet.) Seems we will have a frost/freeze mid-week, getting later and later.

Caught a glimpse of Venus, crazy bright, and Mercury and Spica through the few remaining leaves early this morning, no thin crescent visible. Maybe I saw the dot of a comet in Orion??? through binocs late night. Sunset yesterday was stunning!!

Caribbean plate still quaky, Indo-Australian plate, much of its entire boundary is on the move today joined by Meso and South American plates. 6 quakes today at or above magnitude 5 - 50 quakes on list, total. But, nothing major, so local issues only.

Time to wrap my 1,001st blog and take a recently returned large brown dog on a hunting season walk, dogs and shooting started early, oh joy, TDS* loose in the forest with guns.."I don' care if I trespass, we always hunt'd here..." If 71 million people say a stupid thing...it's still a stupid thing, Today On Earth!!

*TrumpDickSucker:)

Friday, November 13th!!

Well, the rain gauge wasn't overflowing but it was above the marked 5" line - maybe 5.3" and water flowing through the yard and forest like I have never seen. Two of my bridges had debris on or against them but remain in place - the South Anna was farther out of its bank than I have ever seen - looking more like a lake than a river - just below the 604 bridge. Harris creek was across the road 6"+ deep when I eased through on the way to town - not on road upon return.

The actual river is over in the trees...

But, the front is through, Eta is off the coast and cool High pressure is building in, sun and scattered cumulus on an average November day - Friday the 13th. Just what we need in 2020.

Punk'n Head's loss denial continues but sycophants are gradually dropping the charade, national security concerns beginning to slip into reality. Joe, needs to know, cuz Donny the douche doesn't care - he hasn't attended a briefing in over a month - gotta watch the fox - who cares if Ghina rages on!

Nevada rocked with a 5.3 quake today, Idaho also back in the shaky zone - both quake areas sparsely populated, no issues. Worldwide, usual regions, no issues.

The TrumpVirus issue continues to explode in the US - especially in states that hosted Donny's superspreader events - guesses are at least 700 have died, directly related to his rallies - my hunch (and hope) that it's much higher - what TDS* would admit they got the virus at a rally, they live in a world of denial, why not go out the way they lived, with a lie!!

Another record yesterday, 163,000 new cases, 1,172 more dead Americans - at this rate, and it shows no sign of slowing as dumbasses continue to wander freely, unmasked, we'll reach 11,000,000 cases by week's end with over 1/4 million dead long before Thanksgiving - at 243K yesterday!! More positivity in White House staff, nice!!

The thin waning crescent moon, Venus, Mercury and Spica formed a lovely trapezoid before sunrise this morning - not visible here through a soggy sky. The sun continues to stir, sunspots activity still on the increase, but no big, potential issues pointed at Earth. A greenish comet is cruising through Orion, just passed the belt, headed toward left shoulder star, Bellatrix two days hence - telescope needed although I will try if skies allow with binocs.

The cool has returned, although longer term forecast for this winter, La Nina in play, is for a mild winter in much of eastern US with little snow - shocker! What...you mean Earth is warming!! YES!

A little more everyday, Today On Earth!!

*TDS - TrumpDickSucker

On & On & On & On & On It Rains

I wonder..is my rain gauge overflowing? I checked it last night at 11:20, 2.8"! And, I checked it because I saw a big storm headed our way on radar that began almost as soon as I walked back in. More lightning and lots and lots more rain; 11 hours later and it's still pouring! CRAZY!! Flooding, you bet! Wet dog, you bet, he just couldn't stand it, had to go see his girl; light rain when he left but dumping when he returned 2 hours later. The back end of the front is near, Eta is about to clear Florida and November air will replace the swampy air of summer - dew points at or above 70 yesterday!!

One more time, Welcome to Global Warming!!

Theta churns in the Atlantic, soon Iota will become storm # 30 in the Caribbean!!

Just to remind us what is really in charge - THE SUN - has a new, wild sunspot that just blasted a huge CME* into space, not quite at Earth..new spot hasn't really turned our way. How about a pandemic with no electricity for a year or so!! Woooo! How all you denying greed heads doing now!!

Speaking of whiny baby denying pigs - there's fat Donny, fat Billy and fat Mikey and all their fat sycophant TDS**, all planning for a second term with Punk'n Head as president. Well boys, that ain't gonna happen!! Even after completing their dictator training program, that ain't gonna happen. US military is already shutting down their attempts to muster troops and tanks and plane in a holiday show of might!

If 71,000,000 people say and do a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing!

What is both sad and stupid..thanks again, Donny - 143,000 more Americans with TrumpVirus and another 1,431 Americans dead- yesterday - with Illinois yesterday's death leader but with the late surge, Texas should hit 20,000 dead before the week is done. Cali should join them in the million cases club by sometime today!! And, all because our dumbass tweeter wouldn't tell people to wear a mask - and most of his fat pig supporters could really use a mask to hide their snouts from offending the rest of us!!

Outside, the wind is whipping, leaves flying, fall colors mostly gone but it's still in the 60's; that will change but still no frosty temps in the forecast - just cooler, drier after the pending front passage.

No big quakes today, only two even into the low 5's. Puerto Rico's 8 quakes are back to a more average day.

In volcano news, 18 on the list this week. Indonesia's Merapi has been voted most likely to explode big time - no help coming from allah you overbreeding idiots!! 4 others join in the fun in the crowded island arc nation. Kamchatka still getting busy in eastern Russia. Popo not always on the list but always active - since mid 1990's anyway. Michael volcano on Saunders island on the eastern edge of the Scotia plate is showing signs of life as is Barren island in (claimed by) India's Andaman islands. Otherwise, pretty much the usual round the Ring suspects, it's a lively planet we inhabit.

At any time there are actually over 40 volcanoes showing some sign of vulcanism and the number would be in the thousands if we threw in hot springs, seeps, geysers, mud pits and the like. Lot of heat still inside the Earth, looking for a way out.

So, why do we keep adding to the heat problem...money!!

Stay dry, Today On Earth...

Rain finally seems to be letting up!! Woooooo

*CME - Coronal Mass Ejection

**TDS - TrumpDickSucker

A Warm, Wet Wednesday - Veteran's Day!

Eta is back to a hurricane, headed for a landfall along Florida's west coast but we are being drenched in the moisture flung northward by the storm. Temps stayed in the 60's over night, above the average high temp for Veteran's Day. (It's currently 15 in Breckenridge so it is November in some places.) Theta, newly formed in the eastern Atlantic appears headed toward Spain and the Caribbean has another system looking to spin into Iota - and we're all learning the Greek alphabet!

Quakes in Greece and Macedonia have likely tweaked some nerves today, Tonga quake hit 6.0 and Japan's SE volcanic island region had a 5.7 quake. Elsewhere around the fractured planet, the usual suspects with no big issues.

In DeeCee, the coup issue is growing as the loser prez refuses to concede, staff is dropping like flies in disgust at the clueless deceit, replaced by more TDS* intent on maintaining power. News came out the "president" hasn't attended a daily security briefing since October 1st and TrumpVirus cases and deaths spiked again yesterday - 140K cases and 1,448 deaths. Texas went over the one million mark for cases, way to not care Lone Star Losers!!!

Monday's news of good vaccine test result still leave us a long way from getting those vaccines approved and into folks worldwide! Lying prez, of course, claims timing was down to hurt him. Nope, he does that all by himself!

A green comet is moving through Orion but not quite visible to the eye, got a scope, looks pretty cool! No sky viewing here for a couple of days. Saturn and Jupiter are inching closer together in the SW as dusk!!

Yard was cleared of leaves yesterday, it's covered again today!! Much of the color has flown the coop but the clingy beech leaves along the creek still with the iridescent sunset show.

Good luck staying dry, Today On Earth.

*TrumpDickSuckers

Eta Lingers, Theta Forms!! #29!!

Theta became the 29th named storm yesterday; should that really surprise us in 2020. The year the combined effort and disregard of humans forced Earth to rear its responses, record heat, drought, fires, storms, floods. Records always fall, will we get on the proactive train or continue racing toward the cliff on the greed express. Joe Biden's election signals a chance for hope and after 4 years of lies and chaos we sure need some hope.

Yet, in the face of defeat, the lying, plan-less republicans and their screaming fox sycophants continue to deny and lie and cry foul - and they know foul and deceit and election repression, it has been their only plan for decades (centuries?). Bad winners, worse losers. This as another 131,000 people are infected with the TrumpVirus - their "leader's" inaction will certainly have killed a quarter million Americans by Thanksgiving(maybe by the end of this week..) - hopefully thousands in the households of notre dame douches that flooded the field Saturday night. 11,000 cases in Illinois alone yesterday (but Texas still leads the case and death race). Die, you overbreeding irish dickbags!!

The weather in the US is as divided as the country, the eastern half warm and sunny like Biden supporters, out west, cold and nasty as a super spreader Punk'n head rally. Eta continues to spin in the Gulf, trying to wash the stench off that is Florida. Dumbass TDS* shocked at the flooding, "never seen it like this"; morons, welcome to your new underwater future, sunshine state.

We, as the leaf fall picks up pace, await the rain, first the moisture slung up from Eta ahead of the front and then from the strong Cold front itself as it pushes through Thursday. No snow here, but tropical warmth and humidity - the stank breath of the Gulf, how many inches of rain this time...? This rain event will push us well above 50" for the year, more new normal???

At least, earthquake numbers and strengths are still low, 5.5 offshore PNG today's strongest. No solar blasts thus far from the sunspot archipelago roiling on our star. The waning crescent moon closes in on Venus predawn - above the Morning star on Thursday, below Venus and above Mercury on Friday. It will, of course, be cloudy and raining here blocking any hope of viewing.

Time for another November walk in shorts and Tshirt, ahead of what ever rain prep it is I do...get the last few days leaves off the roof and out of the yard, so more can fall - still more down than cling to branches above. I'm squinting as I type, close to needing to move my blog spot farther back into the house.

But, I'm sleeping better, smiles appear quicker as I'm reminded our 4 year nightmare is winding down...but, Donny, in his spiteful ways, fired another important official, tasked with our safety, to put another TDS*the guy in charge of NSA?? (I think..) Who knows what damage he will manage to do over the next 70 days - a little, scared, vindictive, pussy of a man, our fading poser of a president.

Get out and enjoy the global warming while it's still safe to go out, Today On Earth!!

*TDS -TrumpDickSucker

Eta! Hot & Cold - RIP ALEX TREBEK!!

The answer is Alex Trebek...

Who was best game show host ever?

Wonderful special on last night about a truly wonderful guy. Jeopardy may live on but it will never be the same. Thanks for all the fun and knowledge, Alex. Your legend will live on!!

Late summer in the east, November out west and hurricane season in and off Florida; still Donny whines on...the new normal.

While the US and world breathes a big sigh of relief, Donny and his idiot band of TDS* continue to whine and moan about an election stolen... so that means liar extraordinaire Lindsey stole his re-election in SC...oh, but the idiots don't want it both ways - when they win it's fair and square, a dem wins and there must be cheating. As another 100,000 Americans get the TrumpVirus, our "leader" hacks and cheats on the golf course - cart parked on the green so his fat ass doesn't have to stumble far, what a lying, treasonous pig.

As our new, actual, leader begins to assemble a task force to actually deal with the TrumpVirus - just going over the 10,000,000 - million - mark in the US, quite the leader we are!! Joe, likely on day one will undo much of the damage Donny has executive ordered, getting back to the government's #1 job of protection.

Earthquake map today has a mine collapse in Va's Appalachia.. but nothing even near mag. 5 worldwide, crazy.

Eta looks to be spending a wet and breezy week in the Gulf, hopefully washing/flooding all the cuban TDS* back to their island home. Welcome to the new warmer world you just voted for, swim bitches!!

Here, as leaves continue to give in to gravity, we will be in the 70's again (maybe a few spots will hit 80). I'm about to head out in shorts and a T-shirt again..on November 9th. Just opened the windows, it's already 69 outside - a year ago, ice on Breyer's wading pool with lows in the 20's. Even with a cold front and Eta combining for rain mid-week, we're still in the 70's, maybe only upper 60's by the weekend. Will we even have a frost in November?

Welcome to Global Warming!! The sunspot has become a sunspot archipelago, we'll see what CME's might head our way - live on a planet near a star, there are occasional issues! Adapt, Migrate or Die, today on Earth.

*TDS - TrumpDickSuckers

Yo Donny..You're Fired!!

Another lovely day in the eastern two thirds of the country, unless you are one of the 126,000 people diagnosed with the TrumpVirus yesterday. The NW is the opposite, snowy and cold, cold as a sympathy note from Donny the douche after your family was one of the 1,013 that lost a family member yesterday. We will likely hit 10 million total cases today and perhaps hit 240,000 Americans dead, still no help coming from DeeCee as the fatass prez gets back to cheating at golf. The current administration does what they have done for the last 4 years; lie, blame, cheat and steal all with no hint of a plan, even how to go about election questions of recounts, got no plan, gotta be republican.

A mag. 4 quake on the S. Massachusetts coast, hmmmm; wild planet where most anything is possible. A lingering tropical storm, Eta, that may get back to hurricane status as it sits and spins, dumping massive rain, in the Gulf, for the week. Sorry, but as a source of so many problems in this country, suck it up Florida and Gulf Coast.

The sun spot is now aimed pretty much right at Earth, already creating Earthly radio disturbances in Australia and the Indian ocean. Last Quarter moon this morning, planet show shines on!!

Enjoy the early October loveliness here in early November, several more days coming.

Get out and enjoy it while you can, there will be change, Today On Earth.

TrumpVirus - More Cases Than Votes

The vote count is slowing, especially for the Punk'n Head whiner making up more and more lies about the "rigged-ness" of everything..that he doesn't like. I think the republican house seat gains were rigged or the slime slingers flung the AOC/Socialist label on everything and suckers bought it. What isn't slowing is the TrumpVirus. 133,000 new cases, including liar backup Marky Meadows - die bitch, die!! - and another 1,223 Americans that will have no Thanksgiving travel decisions to make, just funeral plans for another 1,223 families - Thanks Donny & Mark.

Eta regrows in the Caribbean about to hammer Cuba before what is expected to be an extended stay in the Gulf. Enjoy Florida, I'm sure your hero will be along soon to offer federal assistance..LOL!! The rest of the country, east of the Rockies, basks in the new, globally warmed glow of October, here on November 7. Gorgeous weather, into the 70's again, and not Indian summer, no frost yet!! Still tomatoes and peppers grow, albeit slowly, on!!

Quakes: Anchorage just got rocked with a 5.0 shakeup, S. Sandwich hits 6.0 and Japan and Tonga sea floors hit upper 5's. Idaho is a little shaky again, just a little Earth reminder. Puerto Rico aftershocks on. Texas fracking quakes continue.

Big sunspot still stewing, solar wind lighting northern skies with Auroras nightly. Planet show still dazzles in the evening - easy to see/imagine the ecliptic - and the 3D nature of the solar system; Saturn and Jupiter slowly slipping back behind the sun as we pull away from them, Mars also losing the orbit race with Earth but still around for months yet. Moon at last quarter at 8:46 tomorrow morning.

Get out and enjoy the autumn show - the yellow-orange of the beeches lit with the setting sun yesterday was off the charts spectacular - the intensity fading quickly as the sun dipped out of view but still nice...

Be likely to happen again, Today On Earth!!

122K - New Cases - Yesterday

Denials and TrumpVirus cases continue to surge across the US; 122,000 new cases yesterday, almost 9,000 in Texas just hitting 19,000 deaths - WOOOO - go Lone star state - but Illinois with almost 10,000 new cases leads the way. Still no help, policy or plan coming from DeeCee, either from congress or the Denier in Chief. With another 1,108 deaths nationwide yesterday it looks to be a long, dark winter indeed.

Rumors of volcano Merapi in Indonesia about to go big..on the weather channel but no mention on USGS volcano site?? Handful of quakes in the low 5's today, usual suspects.

The high pressure here, and on much of eastern half of country, continues the lovely October weather, even though it is November. Eta appears a long way from done, just emerging back into Caribbean. Cuba, then the Keys then into the Gulf..we can all imagine where that will lead. Our next rain may well be tied to the remnants of the great and powerful ETA!

Sunspot is still blasting away on the sun. Auroras back on display up north. Evening, so early now, still with lovely planet and star show. Moon light rules the sky midnight and beyond, reaching Last Quarter early Sunday.

And, exactly as predicted, fat ass president claims victory, wide spread voter fraud, demands counting stop while his TDS* saps rant and threaten..exactly as predicted..way to stay on script. He was a bad winner, we knew he'd be a worse looser!! Joe remains calm and confident as the counting rolls on, thanks, we need an adult in the room, Today On Earth!

*TDS -TrumpDickSucker

Sunspot AR2781 - Earth Beware!!

The new beast on the sun, new cycle's AR2781, now 3 times the size of Earth, is getting wild; explosions and blasts that have already done a slight zapping of radio signals in the southern hemisphere. Looking like more to come..and, that would make global warming look like a minor issue if sun really gets wild.

Meanwhile Eta works it way back to the life-giving warmth of the Caribbean Sea before a transect of Cuba and then problems for south Florida. All you idiot CuboAmericans that voted for Punk'n Head, karma is coming for you!!

Here, we are looking at a week of October-like loveliness, weather trends leaning toward being at least a month off. Still no frost and none on the horizon with lows and high sneaking up for at least a week -Eta?? being our next rain chance middle of next week. Ski season on hold back east.

3 quakes at barely 5 for Earth, no issues there.

16 volcanoes on the weekly list, either recently improved or my new updated system now reading the new page. Kamchatka's 5 exploding mountains still lead the list with Guatemala's usual 3 back on the list. Nicaragua has a rubbling volcano to add to the flood, landslide issues from Eta. Indonesia with 3, Japan with 2 and the Aleutians with one rumbling and one with the wind blowing old ash around??? Not sure why that's on there.

The "rounding the corner" USA hit an all time high for new cases with 108,000 yesterday. Throw in 1,616 more dead Americans (hopefully all rally attendees!) and just another of the tens of thousands of lies in the last 4+ years from THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER! The only good news, Joe Biden appears to be leading in the needed states, their counting slowed by republicans legislatures now whining about the slow counting. Punk'n Head prez, as forecast, has already claimed victory and begun filing law suits, what a douche!!:) Meanwhile, most remain calm.

To all the volunteers working hard to get the count right, THANK YOU.

To all the doctors & nurses and staff working long, trying hours to keep folks alive, THANK YOU.

To all the underpaid, overworked essential workers (that is not you, Mikey Pence) keeping the food and necessities coming (but, to all the dumbass truck drivers thinking you're driving Porsches, slow down and stay in the right lane) THANK YOU!!

To everyone in a mask, THANK YOU!!

To all you TDS without a mask, TrumpVirus to you!!

Time to get out and enjoy the loveliness, Today On Earth!!

High Here, Eta There

Monstrous High pressure dome over the eastern US will continue the trend of chilly nights and lovely warm days. Hurricane Eta is creating a different scenario in MesoAmerica with a serious trashing of the place and is now forecast to bring it's devastation party to S. Florida for the weekend. Florida surprisingly unscathed during this record smashing year - if the dumbassess went for Punk'n Head, let's hope they get the destruction they deserve - no matter, Miami will be part underwater by the next (if we have another) presidential election.

Aleutian's Sand Island region is still quite shaky, more aftershocks in the mag. 5 range; no tsunami. Easter Island and S. Sandwich regions with some 5+ quakes but mostly the usual suspects with no major damage.

The sun is stirring, new sunspot growing into a large, magnetically twisted monster, stay tuned Earth. The moon, well on the wane, is up later and later, leaving the evening sky to the planet..and stars..and Milky Way. It will be an early dark, mild evening, check it out.

92K+ Americans tested positive for the TrumpVirus yesterday with 1,100+ paying the ultimate price for federal failure to respond - as they hosted another super spreader event at White House. Da Nile, the Egyptian river cruising and crushing the heart of America, Today On Earth.

HOPE: For Election Rejection - Donny, "You're Fired"

The wind has calmed, but even with calm air, seems no frost here and a more southern air flow will bring a gradual warm up to the mid-Atlantic. Elsewhere, things are less calm. Most powerful typhoon ever to make land fall just trashed the Philippines and another Cat. 5 monster, Eta, is about to hammer Nicaragua. Monster storms in November...the new norm. As Australia preps for more temp records smashed ahead of another bad fire season. The new sunspot cycle is also starting to become more active.

Here in the US, businesses are boarded up ahead of forecast??? election violence. One side as our current liar, traitor in chief continues to try and steal the election and Donny's racist gun thugs if results come back, as predicted with a resounding "you're fired". Yea, he's made America great again. We're a laughing stock around the world. Add in 93,000+ new TrumpVirus cases and rounding the curve becomes falling into a deep dark well. Hang on!! Donny's gonna scream, "I won" way ahead of any reliable vote count. We know he's a bad winner, just imagine him getting his ass kicked. Whiny pussy ass bitch!! Already doing what he's always done, deny and get out the lawyers.

Few quakes rattling central Eurasia, 6.0 off S. Chile', few along Indo-Australian/Pacific boundary and you got Earth doing it's thing. The moon lovely again last night. My second dog walks are closer to dark so spotted Jupiter and Mars going out, Saturn had appeared coming in. Sun doing the gradual warm up as I slurp coffee #1, dog home from morning romp, snores peacefully.

Stay safe, hope you voted long ago, and let's hope for the best, prepare for the worst, Today On Earth.

November Blows, Chilly

Yesterday's cold front and rain is today's wild, wild wind as the storm moves off the Maritimes and high pressure in the Mississippi valley battle it out. A big pressure gradient between them means leafs are flying. Mid 30's overnight, likely 20's tonight. Even with sun only into mid-40s right now.

Eta is strengthening, thank you global warming of oceans, about to hammer MesoAmerica but may reappear back into Gulf or Caribbean for round 2. EEEEEIIIIIHHHAAAA!! 2020 roars on!

Only 74,000+ new TrumpVirus cases yesterday with 427 more deaths but weekend numbers always seem to drop before rising dramatically during the week...sooooo not rounding any corners as we close in on 10 million cases, 231,000 dead (both thought to be much lower than reality). Nice job Donny, yea, it's done. Hopefully, after tomorrow, you're done, FIRED!! Piece of garbage!!

Earthquakes are, again, not exciting, biggest anywhere at 5. Turkey death toll continues to climb. Solar wind CME was weaker than expected that grazed Earth yesterday. The now waning moon was still lovely with Mars, Jupiter and Saturn last night but I didn't do much gazing with the wind whipping stuff around, lots of leaves up against my house in typical NW breeze fashion.

And, Breyer is still the most handsome dog, ever, Today On Earth

November, More Rain, More Pain:(

100,000 cases/day, 1,000 deaths/day

TrumpVirus ain't going away

Like early voting, there is a surge

Hopes for sanity, that there is a purge

Remove our russian despot wannabe

Returning America to semi-free

Well, that is if you're white

Folks of color, fewer rights

November kicking off with rain

Likely Tuesday, a frosty refrain

Few big quakes, Turkey still reeling

Indonesia, Costa Rica, a shaky feeling

Then concern of election stealing

More TrumpVirus, democracy peeling

Away, away, worldwide

Without an American guide

Still just lies, still no plan

Gotta be a fool to vote republican

Today On Earth

Big, blue moon and planet show

Set last night's sky aglow

Add to that aurora's up north

Let's not forget our planet's worth

And, that it's our only home

Running out of room to roam

But, with no population lids

Humans still headed for the skids

Militia's here threaten intimidation

Fueled with their mental frustration

Under-educated, racists pigs

Waving guns in their whining jigs

Russia still working hard

To keep US prez, the one of lard

Turmoil, the TrumpVirus way

As another 1,000 Americans pass away

Hope that its not you or your's

At least rain here no longer pours

Time for a walk, a look-see

Let the brown dog run free

Stay safe, stay smart

Mask on, stay apart

Today On Earth