Woooooo..Sunshine!!

High pressure has pushed the last storm far off the Maritimes and the Polar Vortex is slowly receding, the sun is shining brightly here, woooooo!! Melting is still slow but the temperature is slightly above freezing and the skating rink that was our world is slowly loosening up. Another cold overnight with more sun Sunday before another slight mess Monday. Forecasts of 70 have been downgraded to 60's for the week ahead, which will feel like a heat wave. From the branches and bouncing bird feeders outside, I'd say the wind has picked up with the High/Low interface acting a little frisky. Wind chill alert!!

Shake numbers are back to more normal levels; no magnitude 6 quakes and only one off Puerto Rico! Alaska is a little shaky, OK, too; Japan continues with aftershocks but Tonga & Loyalty Isles have settled a bit. Pressures will re-load!!

Auroras were cranking in the far north last night (isn't it always night up there?? For another 4 weeks anyway..), the First Quarter moon was beaming brightly last night but I did not linger and look for Mars or check constellations. It's more likely that will happen tonight.

While TrumpVirus numbers, cases and deaths, are trending downward, another 2,626 Americans died yesterday with 78,000+ more folks realizing they are infected. Today or certainly tomorrow the not so great USA will hit 1/2 million deaths; nice job of doing nothing but continuing to run your con, donny!

In not so great news, the doc that predicted, to much ridicule, all of the rises/peaks (there have been no real falls) of the virus to this point is forecasting, that if we continue to lag, trying to get 2 doses into arms first rather than just one shot in as many arms as possible, that the British variant will create an even worse surge this spring. I hope he's wrong but he hasn't been, so far. Storms mostly everywhere have slowed distribution and administration this week, the virus has not taken the week off. Our inaction and unwillingness to mask up (thanks again for nothing, donny) has allowed our experiment in viral evolution to carry on; carrying more bodies off!! Natural selection and Earth do not care, they just do what they do!!

So, do what you do, stay safe, be smart, mask up and stay apart, Today On Earth!!