Little Rain... Humidity Break!!

Suddenly, the sky turned very dark grey

Line of storms headed our way

And, it blew through, pretty quick

Cleaner air, less humid, pretty slick

In "ya just never know" news

Suddenly, coyote popped into view

Surprise to him, the dog & me

Big dog took off for a look see

Wonder if coyote is checking baby out

Another cow about to drop kid out?

In flood news, Miss. & Pakistan

Both, begging for help, their plan

One, entire country's on the flood plain

236 million, all looking to complain

Get no help, but to Allah still pray

With more babies coming their way

Maybe their heads wrapped too tight?

Cuz something sure ain't right

Easy way to get things under control

Try a little (or lotta) birth control

Down in Jackson, water an issue, too

"Just don't know what we're gonna do"

At the water plant, no one will work

For years, maintenance they shirk

Proactive vs reactive, easy choice

But, we choose the whining voice

Lie, deny, blame, the only plan

Any where ya got..republican

Prez Joe, telling it like it is

Supporting insurrection is traitor biz

REALITY

Putin is a dick, donnie's a traitor

Kill 'em both, sooner not later

Good shake today, just off Greece

Just a little rock release

Little shake in Pakistan, too

Again, seems Allah won't help you

Sun still going big, not at Earth

Gonna zap Venus, for what it's worth

Artemis seems a-go on Saturday

By then, another 2K'll be gone away

Seems TrumpVirus still don't play

Remain unvaxed, we don't care

Good to get TDS* outta here

Off to heaven? more likely hell

But, none come back to tell

So, enjoy your life cuz no one knows

Which way a future wind blows..

Today On Eath

Momma cow is on alert

Big dog, in her field

Get any closer, gonna get hurt!

*TDS - TrumpDickSucker

So pathetic...

Ohh..It Is Your Fault Pakistan!!

The usual whiner on the news last night

About flooded Paki-ville, no land in sight

"It's not our fault about global warming"

But, it is your fault w/ population swarming

Size of California, 5th most crowded place

Everywhere, too many people in your face

Praying to Allah, but he's still a no show

Millions on a flood plain, better learn to row

Jackson, Mississippi w/ a similar fate

Life along the Big Muddy seemed so great

But, that is until.. surprise!! a big flood

And, still seemed shocked, just got mud

In education, Miss. always ranked last

Seems another basic test was not passed

Monster typhoon in the western Pacific

Ultimate destination, not quite specific

Atlantic basin is stirring up, too

Until now, Sahara dust w/ the subdue

Quakes, usual scene, Pacific rim

And, Texass, fracking excuses are slim

TrumpVirus info semi-caught up

Floriduuh, 209 dead, that was abrupt

Fat orange guy wants court order info

So, after the "tattlers" he can go

Biggest TDS*, SC's Lindseeey

"Follow the law" rioting we will see

Good, then shoot the fascists dead

And, lock up traitor w/ fat orange head

Artemis rocket seems on hold

Later today, more we will be told

Nearby star, still spotty & wild

But, only grazed Earth, effects mild

For now..

Here, August w/ the hot muggy end

But..front could bring NW wind

And, much lower humidity

About rain, we'll just wait & see

Today On Earth

This mushroom like a TDS*

Seemed so strong & hot

But, rather quick to rot

*TDS - TrumpDickSucker

Boy, did you get conned!!

September: On & Off Earth

September 2022 - On & Off Earth

Looking back eleven years, after the earthquake dust had settled and aftershocks had slowed (a bit), students and staffs came back to the schools to get everything that we’d left inside after fleeing the buildings. One of the first students I saw, from the previous semester, pointed her finger at me and said, “you said this couldn’t happen!” 

She was right. For years, I had been telling students about the reality of our living in an earthquake zone but had also been telling them, don’t worry, we’re not on a plate boundary, we’re not going to have a big quake. My reply to her, “you are right, I was wrong”. (Glad to know she was listening.)

In last month’s column, using my weather journals and the Virginia Wildlife calendar’s insight, I ruled out the chance of Canadian air driving a cold front all the way through the Old Dominion. Once again, but this time pleasantly so, I was wrong. While much of the northern hemisphere swelters in extreme heat, we have had a fairly pleasant late August.

One thing there is no doubt about, on September 22nd, at 9:04pm EDT, the Autumnal Equinox will occur as our tilted planet’s orbit re-aligns the sun directly over the equator. That evening’s sunset will be due West, the following morning’s sunrise ever so slightly south of due East as the nighttime begins to win out over the daylight and we move into Fall. Earth’s orbit moves the sun from Leo into Virgo on the 17th.

Also a certainty, on the evening of the 9th, the Full Harvest moon will rise as the sun sets and travel across the sky, lead by Saturn and trailed by Jupiter. The Moon, to circle the Earth in 29.5 days, moves eastward about 12 degrees per day. The moon's movement is easy to spot over the 5 days it takes to move from near Saturn on the 7th to near Jupiter on the 11th.

While our ancestors figured out the movements in the night (and daytime) skies long ago, our ability to predict the comings and goings of weather systems remains iffy beyond a very few days. 70 years ago, some of the very first computers were put to work to make long term weather forecasts. Today’s far superior machines still come up short. The weekend forecast on any given Monday subject to change by Friday. I will stick with my standard forecast, “there will be weather”.

Hurricane season 2022, so far, has certainly not lived up to expectations. The average peak for the Earth’s biggest storms is September 10th in the Atlantic basin and there are signs of an uptick in activity; Earth is going to move the excess summer heat around. The calm times, well before the storm warnings are issued, are when to check your storm preparations; now might be a good time.

Until any stormier times arrive, I hope you are able to get out on the planet and enjoy our, relatively, milder last days of summer. Yes, it’s warm and humid and there are bugs about but the extreme weather issues much of the world has suffered through this summer have not been much felt here. But, we all know, with great certainty, there will be change.

Next month: an update on the launch of Artemis, the world’s biggest rocket.

For now Artemis is on delay, fuel leak issues..

Today On Earth

A fading, rotting Chicken of the Woods

Warm & Buggy

Really, for August it's not too hot

Still, it's the bugs that we got.. a lot

Gnats, mosquitoes, now horse flies

All looking to eat your eyes

Well, horse flies looking at your back

To land & make their bite attack

But, it is an eat or be eaten place

And, all the goodies are on our face

Hurricane season's been slow to grow

Til now, storms queuing up for a blow

No names yet, but looking to spin

Both in Atlantic & Caribbean

A few quakes, mostly a local surprise

Yet, nothing causing a wave to rise

TrumpVirus numbers, few reports

Safe bet, 500 headed to burial resort

Sun still fired up, wind coming our way

Auroras in northern US today??

🚀

Tomorrow, Artemis headed to the moon

Biggest rocket ever...will get there soon

2 hours after launch, on it's way

'Round moon, 42 days it's gonna play

No one on board, 2024 for that

Well, let's see where the world is at

Taiwan, Mar a Lago, Ukraine

Then there's climate, semi-insane

And, every upward our numbers rise

Population, our ultimate demise

Earth got rules we must obey

And, planet don't care if you pray

Cuz always something waiting to eat

To most of Earth, we're just meat

It's Sunday, remember that nearby star

Without it, we don't get too far...

Today On Earth

Purple Mushrooms

&

Partridge Berry

Lovely

TrumpVirus... Still Killing It!!

Another 656 TrumpVirus dead yesterday

With many TDS* states, nothing to say

Add Monkey Pox & polio back in play

Well, Monkey Pox, if promiscuous & gay

Ghina, dugong officially extinct, all done

World's overbreeding nightmare, movin' on

Hurricane season still moving slow

Few or less?..still months to go

Quakes a few, no issues there

Nearby star, still looking to share

🌞

Big sunspots, M-class solar flares

Isn't it nice when the sun shares

Moon is officially New

🌚

Quite unseen by me..or you

RVA hit 90 yesterday

Today, more heat coming our way

Still not as bad as much of Earth

Yet, still mo-rons busy giving birth

Well.. some states it's required

As in the past we remain mired

Screaming about freedom & rights

But, white control is in their sights

Into a Brave New World, past 1984

We have sadly, flung open that door

Alternative truth the new fox "reality"

Lies & stupid everywhere ya see

But, hundreds still dying every day

Earth, still having the final say

My day started w/ bird against glass

I missed it, dog got it fast

Sadly, a state bird is no history

Dog'll eat every bird he see

Today On Earth

In the forest

The shrooms grow

Cauliflower..whoa

Bigger than most cauliflowers..

*TDS - TrumpDickSucker

Are they really that evil

Or really that stupid??

Mix of both...

Gotta have someone to blame

Couldn't be their fault

For being fat & dumb

Oh contraire!

Pretty Good Here..Elsewhere..Not So Much

We have a little heat & humidity

But extreme wildness, we don't see

It is out there, just pouring down

Flood plain dwellers w/ a frown

Finally, Uvalde police chief was fired

But, in Texass, likely soon rehired

Kid that spoke, said it best

Should be no badge upon the chest

Of any cop that was there that day

Wear badge, own gun, ain't no way

Not local, feds or Texass ranger

Don't sign up if scared of danger

Hundred of fat cops stood around

While 19 kids were gunned down

Need more guns, Va's the place to go

Like this weekend at RVA gun show

Take 'em right up 95

Keep NYC violence alive

VA is NRA & gun dealers dream

Sell to all, death the only theme

Don't swallow the "safety" pill

All a gun will do is kill!!

And, Earth is dangerous enough as is

W/ our human climate change biz

Crops are failing as rivers run dry

Glacial ice is going bye bye

Still no serious quake concerns

Round the Ring, volcanoes taking turns

Pending undersea eruption off Japan?

New island in Earth's long term plan?

Sun still blasting, auroras seen

Putin still bombing, little dick is so mean

TrumpVirus, another 600+ dead

Monkey Pox, too many men in your bed

Trying to get straight world to care

We don't, really, mostly unaware

OMG

Hit wrong key

Google nightmare

Google sucks soooooo BAD

SOOOOO BAD

Today On Earth

Like undo works

Fungus rules

Dog cruises

Eruptions On The Earth & Sun..What Fun!!

Our big ole star is still running hot

New flares & sunspots we have got

Round the planet, blasting volcanoes, too

Some easily seen, some out of view

Under water, still with an eruption

Likely no shipping disruption

But, boat or plane, you should steer clear

If your life you value, it is so dear

But, seems another 926 are gone

For their medical reality, relied on don

But, he's orange, fat & a mo-ron

And, if speaking, you know he's wrong

No big quakes, the usual floods

Flood plain trailers filled w/ muds

Storms moving east across the south

As warming denial comes out of mouth

We still sit w/ weather that's OK

At least for another day

There will be change..Back w/ more

But, time to pickleball!!

Today on Earth

Another fungus explosion

Bob Good Is Sooooo Bad... Just Awful!!

The district I have been re-drawn into

Has a Rep. that's giving 'merica the screw

Voted NO on schools, women & democracy

Big on tax breaks for any oil company

He'd be quick to kneel, give donnie a suck

Bet he's got a little dick & a gas hog truck

Been slime since his town council days

Most supporters living in a tobacco haze

Southside Va is sooo not looking ahead

Hope TrumpVirus keeps knockin' 'em dead

Cuz you know his crew ain't vaccinated

But around the gut, all heavily weighted

Bob (so not) Good is his name

Lying, denying & blame his game

In a country peopled by immigration

Racist hate is Bob's voter relation

Fat & stupid, need someone to blame

Bob's your man, he has no shame

W/ donnie, we know 'merica's in trouble

Throw in Bob, now it's double

Classic poser christian fool

Working for minority rule

Meanwhile

In the real world, Earth is in charge

Climatic troubles still looming large

Rivers dry or out of their banks

And, we're still pumping gas in our tanks

But, switch to EV's is happening fast

Gas guzzlers soon thing of the past

Sadly, warming point has been tipped

Into new, hot planet we have dipped

Monster floods ending long droughts

As "send food" the over-breeder shouts

Still, no big quake issues or waves

But, onward our star still raves

Cool new pics from Webb of Jupiter

Sure, technology could offer a cure

Yet most of world, "we don't believe"

Still from their prayers, no help receive

JesBuddhaHamed still a no show

So..just where do their prayers go?

Seems as they bitch, whine & complain

It's all just in our big ole brain

Earth, about humans, cares not

But, it is going to get hotter than hot

Today On Earth

Last week's newborn calf

Hauling butt out of my path

Sorry I spooked ya buddy

Little Vlady..still a dick

Fat donnie, so not slick

Deluge Is The New Normal??

★Gotta feel for Texass, don't you★

😢😢😢

All that rain, seems Dallas flush was due

After it had been so hot & dry

'Course, global warming they deny

And, get raped, no way on an abortion

But, cops A-OK for wacko w/ a gun

Gov. Greggg(idiot) declared disaster state

But, long been disaster, really no debate

From the Bush family to Teddy Cruz

State motto, no doubt, Born to Lose

Now reservoirs filled w/ mud

School halls already run w/ blood

Home to exxon, get what you deserve

Texass, democracy, not gonna preserve

Here, we had a surprise deluge, too

But, not a dozen, only an inch or two

Now the front is gone, heat is here

And, a blue sky, mostly clear

Much of world blue skies w/o rain

Rivers near dry & they all complain

Only been burning coal for 300 years

Who knew bad times were so near

Well...for decades, science's been clear

Keep adding CO2 & heat stays here

Trap the heat, things get wild

Kinda like poorly parented child

At least, no really big quakes

But, our star is taking no breaks

Sunspots appear, rapidly grow

Might be another solar wind show

Psycho russky killer still on attack

Bombing campaign no sign of slack

Only real solution, take the punk out

Plans in the works, there's no doubt

But, Vlady's a little pussy ass bitch

Just like donnie, his little snitch

Both working from the same deal

Born to lie, born to steal

Speaking of denial, TrumpVirus stats

Lot of red states, no idea where they're at

But, still 500+ dying every day

W/ a gun, 'nother 100+ blown away

'Bout the same as big pharma opioid kills

That it's all OK give ya the chills

But, to not have child you can't support

Ain't no way, you can abort

Seems world not good w/ contraception

But, starvation..a welcome reception

Solutions not that hard, plan your kid

Or..plan to close the coffin lid

DUUUUUHHH

Today On Earth

Again,

Shrooms don't care

Just What Is..Normal?

Return to normal, it's easy to say

How'd we know when it came our way

You can put all the numbers together

And, it still don't equal the weather

We cling to a planet, loose in space

Daily, leaving a rather ugly trace

Mine & drill & pile up our trash

Yet, thoughtful breeding seems so rash

After months of drought, Texass in flood

Last week's dust is this week's mud

Head cop that let 20 kids die

Still w/ a job, please tell me, why?

Car bomb in Russia for Vlady's buddy

Instead got the scums daughter all bloody

Who get's blamed, who get's Vlady's rage

Killing little Vlady..sure turn that page

Hurricane season, still kinda slow

But, any "normal" storm, quite the blow

Cuz new normal, deluge or drought?

Still the future, not well thought out

Exponential growth, war & greed

Not gonna meet any future need

Mid-Atlantic ridge, lava on ooze

Slowly onward the continents cruise

Solar wind adds color to the sky

Bigger blast?? Sets our grids to "fry"

Are we ready, we are so.. NOT

Just like for coming temps set to.. hot

Still idiots scream, our douche bag won

Got no proof but I got my gun

Earth's rules: can't turn back the clock

Just another spin on our big rock

Today On Earth

Who really rules...??

Fungi rules, ties it all together

Whew..Just Ahead Of The Rain

Started to look rather dark outside

Checked the radar, time to slide

Get a quick walk in & we did

First drops as inside we slid

Now thunder booms & rain pours

A very good time to be indoors

Looking like a very wet Sunday

See the sun...ain't no way!!

Another flash, a rumble nearby

Maybe to electronics should say bye-bye

Dog is happy to be inside

Today On Earth

Still Not Bad For August..

Lows in the 60, only 80's for highs

When will this run wave its goodbyes

Maybe low 90's into next week

Elsewhere, Earth is still going freak

Monsoon flooding in the desert SW

S. Texass having another big rain fest

Quakes, not many, only 1 even at mag. 5

Seems the plates not set to overdrive

Sun still blasting solar wind Earth's way

North & South auroras dance & play

Moon, waning crescent, best seen in morn

State of our democracy, still rather forlorn

TrumpVirus still killing 500 a day

Millions still buy ever lie comes their way

Waaay too many people, clean water low

And, we're on Earth, no where else to go

All our garbage, piled up right here

Billions living in hunger & fear

Every thug on the planet has a gun

Realistic plan, really don't have one

Population the issue, none will go there

Whine, help my 9 kids, think that I care

Patriarchal religion the evil behind

Most every problem that ya find

Puny sperm donors won't give up control

And, nothing on Earth that can't be stole

Use it up fast, pile up the mess

All is forgiven if ya go & confess

What a joke...

Today On Earth

Fungus will be here

Long after we're gone

Slow Return To August Heat

We're still on the cool side of the front

But, that boundary is on the hunt

Clouds thicken, humidity on the rise

Tomorrow, mo' rain, no big surprise

Back in the 90's by next week

Cool this long, really kinda freak

Since most of N. Hemisphere on cook

Heats up, waters down, everywhere ya look

TrumpVirus, another 600+ reported dead

Could of tried truth & vax instead..

Sun still spotty, blasting our way

Norway, auroras for daylight play

Quakes, few, mostly W. Hemisphere

Western Pacific quake clear??

That's pretty crazy..

Today On Earth

Storm..near C'ville??

From north of RVA

Pre-show entertainment

Michael Franti just as impressive!!

Rivers Are Low, Solar Wind On High

The nearby star that fuels Earth's life

Continues w/ some wild spotty strife

Another blast, a Coronal Mass Ejection

Require Earth's magnetosphere protection

But, it will agitate our upper atmosphere

And, not too far north, auroras will appear

In Earth's crust, along plate boundaries

Rocks are slipping, looking to un-seize

Some quakes caused by a magma push

About 18 spots, have a little lava gush

From drought across northern hemisphere

Many (lots & lots) river's levels are severe

And, since most have been dammed up

Those lakes behind..drops are abrupt

With low winter snow & glacial melt

Global Warming reality, is being felt

TrumpVirus deaths, 960 reported today

And, several states, nothing to say

Time for me to do a dog walk

So, just a short bloggy talk

Stay safe out there, work for change

Craving the past seems so strange

Ignore a future that's coming fast

Just how long will humans last?

Time will tell, Earth will be here

Humanity...that remains unclear...

Today On Earth

The fungal world

Doesn't care about us

Just shrooming on

Whole lotta shrooms

We'll Take The Trough!

A big dip in the jet stream, a trough

Continues to hold summer's heat off

While others sit in flood or drought

Here, it's quite nice to go out

Well, there are the gnats & flies

Wanting up your nose or in your eyes

Around the planet, few quake concerns

But, for Taiwan, Ghina still yearns

Little Vlady still bombing Ukraine

Fat donnie, for the law, still disdain

TrumpVirus still taking 500/ day

And, ice sheets still melting away

Big blasts coming from the sun

Into USA could be aurora fun

In the yard, wrens looking to move in

Finches, raking bird seed out...again

Just know, our August heat reprieve

Just a bit of global warming deceive

CO2 still rising, trapping the heat

In Texass, solar oven'd cook meat

Water restrictions finally in place

Mexico gets none, in your face!!

Big reservoirs in desert sandstone

Cuz we can't leave well enough alone

Greed: had to build Vegas & LA

Thinking Earth wouldn't have a say

Green desert w/ water from far away

Now, whiners want someone to pay

Growing cotton in desert, what fools

Stupidity & greed, ignore Earth rules

We get reality reminders every day

But, continue to look the other way

Can't eat money, can't eat no gun

Ain't got no clean water, we are done

Today On Earth

YES

Little Vlady is a dick

Coaster from Legend

brewforukraine.beer

Take The Cool... While You Can

Another day of cool, damp & cloudy

Elsewhere, weather, little more rowdy

Options it seems, extreme heat or flood

Do ya want dust, do ya want mud

Here; rain overnight, then peek at sun

Now it's clouds; sun, we see none

But, the sun is blasting energy our way

2 nights hence, auroras seen in the USA

Quake scene remains mostly the same

Well..W. Texass, have fracking to blame

Mostly on boundaries around the Ring

And, round Puerto Rico, plates shifting

In Ukraine??? Not much in news

Mostly, just stupid GOP views

They got no plans, got no shame

Scream & lie, but donnie's to blame

He's a crook, a liar, a cheat & traitor

Ain't too clever, but a racist baiter

Under-educated supporters all worked up

Still drinking from fox poison cup

Not our fault we're fat & dumb

Not our fault we sit til ass is numb

Know what I'd really like to see

% of TDS* collecting disability

Scream about taxes, "ain't gonna pay"

But, want fed check coming their way

Hypocrisy, Blame & Denial

Has 'merican democracy on trial

Verdict, outcome, is not looking good

Sure glad I live deep in the wood

Least, still losing 500 unvaxed TDS*/day

TrumpVirus still taking 'em away

Still screaming, "ain't wearing no mask"

To not die...such a simple task

Today On Earth

Mom & newborn calf

Just missed the birth..

WHOA!!

Breyer very interested

Mom convinced us to go!!

*TDS-TrumpDickSucker

Visit walmart, they're everywhere

Fat, ugly..in maga hat