Big & bad, winter storm Orlena slowly drifts into the Maritimes, still resisting the push of the High building in behind it from the Plains. The wind still blows with stark pressure differences but the sun is slowly regaining control, temps warming and snow melt commencing. Only 4 inches of snow here, have not checked the rain gauge for water translation, not sure if it has melted to measure. Soon..
Up on the Blue Ridge, they got about double that snow and crazy wild wind..but, it didn't shut down chair lifts so on we skied, and it was good. Big crowd on Monday, much smaller Tuesday, no crowd at the tire house today:).
Well, big crowd at the bird feeders, the little feathered pigs catching up after a day and a half with empty tubes. Big dog must have had himself a big time at Fox Hollow kennel, he napped hard last night and late today..and he's sneaking in another nap now.
Fairly shaky day on Earth, 5.0 quake in west Africa, Guinea, Tonga region of Pacific with several 5+ shakes and between Easter Island and Chile', along East Pacific rise, a 6.7 quake but with no tsunami warnings issued. Usual USA suspects (remember Puerto Rico is in USA) with small quakes today. Seems to be no major rock movement concerns on big planet over past couple of days.
Good aurora action up in the north country, solar wind always streaming but a little uptick of late. The moon is at perigee today (closest to Earth for month) and Last Quarter (aka: 3/4) tomorrow; easiest to see in the west in morning daylight as it won't be rising until midnight. Will check on Mercury tonight but think that speedster has moved on; only Mars remains..well, Uranus and Neptune but you'll need a telescope:)..
We should reach 450,000 Americans dead from TrumpVirus later today, if we maintain our current daily average (3K+). Vaccine rollouts remain scattered, every state with a different plan and every region of ever state seemingly on different pages. The lingering results of 4 years without leadership; tweets and lies not having worked too well.
And another democrat trying to clean up a republican mess: Clinton with the ReaganBush 1 war & deficits, Obama with W's two wars and collapsed economy and now Biden with an ignored pandemic, an economy in disarray and stark economic and racial divisions between people living in reality and 70 million others in a world of lies, hoaxes and alternative facts..drifting us toward civil war.
Still the grand old party lies and blames, their fox watching followers sipping more of donny's koolaid every day.
So, stay safe, be smart, mask that face and stay apart, Today On Earth.
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