Pouring rain here in the northeast. :(
Super Moon?
Would that be the Super Moon that the MSM has been pounding down our throats every August for the past 3 years?
WTH? Guess they need a story that is ok to print.
“To make matters worse, the full moon rising Sunday (Aug. 10) will be brighter than it usually is...”
I see the bad moon arising.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earthquakes and lightnin’.
I see bad times today.
Don’t go around tonight,
Well, it’s bound to take your life,
There’s a bad moon on the rise.
I hear hurricanes a blowing.
I know the end is coming soon.
I fear rivers over flowing.
I hear the voice of rage and ruin.
Don’t go around tonight,
Well, it’s bound to take your life,
There’s a bad moon on the rise.
All right!
Hope you got your things together.
Hope you are quite prepared to die.
Looks like we’re in for nasty weather.
One eye is taken for an eye.
Don’t go around tonight,
Well, it’s bound to take your life,
There’s a bad moon on the rise.
Don’t go around tonight,
Well, it’s bound to take your life,
There’s a bad moon on the rise.
Obsessed with m. showers for almost 20 years now. 17 years ago, in west Texas, I saw an MS that defies the word power of even Shakespeare to describe. ‘Twas not to be believed.
Setting the alarm for 3am. I’ll go out and lie in the damp grass and gaze at the Creation.
Back in the early 80’s, we were sailing offshore to Maine in mid August. Wife and I happened to get the 8pm to midnight watch.
Once sundown, we had the most incredible show of the persied meteors, shooting stars across the sky.
Once they kind of calmed down, the Northern lights cranked up, into a fantastic yellow-green dance across the northern sky.
One of those times that a camera could never capture, but sights that will live in my mind for the rest of my life!
Here in Arizona, we can count on overcast skies during the Perseids. This evening, it’s raining here,with thunder and lightning. I’d love to see the Perseids someday.
Saw some last night.
Awesome.
Luv August....
Just now, not even thinking about meteors, I happened to look out the open sliding kitchen door ( through the screen ) and see a slow bright one low in the northwestern sky, in the western ‘burbs of Chicago.
Very efficient observing! One second, one meteor!
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But, one August in the 1950's, my folks and I were bedded down in the back of our pickup, 'way out on Galveston Island's West Beach -- far from any lights. While we were waiting for the tide to turn to go flounder gigging, the sky lit up with the most amazing Leonid display I have ever seen!
Each of us looked a different direction, and several times two of us said at the same time, "there's one"! At times, we couldn't call one -- before another appeared in our quadrant of the sky!
When the tide turned, we lit our lanterns and went floundering. But, if I had known then how unusual that meteor display was, I would have stayed in the truck bed, instead...
Nowadays, unfortunately, development has spread so far west on Galveston that it's doubtful if a dark place like a that still exists on the island... :-(
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I'm definitely in better "seeing" here in the Piney Woods (with the security light switched off). But, this looks like it may be a disappointing Perseid show this year...