Clouds and rain washed any early morning Geminid meteor viewing (although it was clear at midnight and I didn't go out..) and reports of clouds across the path of the moon's shadow may block any eclipse watching across Argentina and Chile'. It's a turbulent, cloudy planet with a 1,000 T'storms going on at any time so..really no surprise. Glad I got a peak at the closing of the Saturn Jupiter gap last night before clouds arrived. If you enlarge pic you can see hints of Jupiter's Galilean moons and Saturn doesn't seem quite round, those dang rings.
A magnitude 6.0 quake just rocked the northern Chilean Andes, far from the total eclipse zone but likely seeing a partial eclipse right now. New moon is 11:17 so they are just a minute away from totality (I'm typing this at 11:15). PNG, Tonga and Fiji all with above 5 shakes today; only fish bothered (no, they weren't).
The rain is slowing here, heaviest stuff seems to have just moved off to the northeast where it will be snowier. We look to be on the edge of major snow storm arriving Wednesday; storms have switched from hurricanes to blizzard, Earth roils on!!
At some sad point today, the 300,000th American will die from the TrumpVirus. Weekend reporting is always low but the pattern seems to be well over 2,000 dead per day, 200,000 new cases per day for a albeit nasty disease but one that could have been controlled and subdued back in the spring if we had a leader with a clue and citizens that believed science and doctors over morons on fox and facebook, alas, here we are.
50 gatherings today will have electors, chosen by voters in their respective states, vote to seal the deal; Joe Biden was elected to be our next president. Joe has already shown more leadership in setting up his administration than donny did in 4 years; there are signs of hope in America (well, except for the fact that there are still fat stupid racist in the streets waving their guns claiming the election was stolen..still zero evidence shown). Stupidity does not play well when shown off in public, but hey, you can see that in any walmart...
My rain hating dog still won't go out; crazy for a dog wading in a creek in the warmth of yesterday. I have rekindled a fire in the wood stove, it's cold and gonna get colder, December rearing it's dark, stormy head, Today On Earth.
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