The clockwise flow around the massive High to our south has us sitting in even warmer southern air today; a dry front will move that air off shore and bring back a little cooler weather for tomorrow. I hit 66 yesterday, will we hit 70 today?
The southern flow across the Atlantic has Europe shrouded in a dust cloud from the Sahara; the rain in Spain, on mountain or plain, mud it may contain, though easy to explain, they'll likely complain...
My large dog has just returned from his morning wander, still with mud on his nose from yesterday's digging, today he's added some dust/ash from sniffing...I don't want to know where, neighbors grill ashes..?? Quickly to nap mode he moves.
Iceland, a volcanic island built from the combination of a hot spot and the Mid Atlantic Ridge is dealing with earthquakes today. A magnitude 4.5 foreshock seconds ahead of the 5.6 main event, with ongoing aftershocks in the mid-fours, likely has the island a little edgy today. Is it magma moving ahead of an eruption, slippage along a nearby transform fault or just movement along a major divergent plate boundary? No written reports but it was very close to Reykjavik where most of the island's population resides, so lot of blonde heads wondering, waiting for what's next.
Elsewhere, a fairly normal looking quake day with a slight uptick of shakes along the Euro/African boundary and around Yellowstone here in the US. With the 5.6 on Iceland the world's biggest shake today, some local nerves frayed but no major alarms anywhere. A dusty, dirty sky all over Europe much more worrisome.
The moon waxes on, two days from full, making for a very bright sky almost all night. The dark hours, now fading fast, down to 12 hours 50 minutes of dark today. We hit 12 light & 12 dark on St. Patty's day.
While TrumpVirus numbers are down, another 2,328 Americans died yesterday from the plague any, even average, leader would have helped contain, just a little leadership, just wear a mask and the world would be so much better off. California closes on on 50,000 dead, still knocking 'em dead out west. Texas and Florida still 2nd and 3rd in dead/day, both states with idiot republican governors deep in denial about masks and shutdowns but seemingly ok with hundreds dying per day as long as donny the douche approves. Cali's dem governor mostly ignored by the "let's party on" mentality in LA. Vaccinations proceed, slowly, but at least demand remains high so with more doses coming, we should begin to get ahead of this lasting insidious debris donny created and then left for Joe to deal with - by the summer??
At least, without the rabid, racist, misogynist Rush to rally the rabble, reality deniers have one less liar to listen to, his death a major bonus for the entire world. Couldn't have happened to a better guy, his venom a major source for donny's evil, moronic ideas (donny having no real ideas of his own), adding greatly to the TrumpVirus debacle. Rot and/or burn in Hell, Rush.
Time to get out and enjoy the springlike day, hope you stay safe and do likewise, Today On Earth.
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