Jul 14, 2014
Supermoon & smoke
What is a supermoon? This year we are fortunate to have three in a row. The first was last Saturday and if you missed it be sure to check it out on August 10th and again on September 9th.
As written by Andrew Watt.
Supermoon events occur when the full moon coincides with it reaching the closest point to the Earth in its elliptical orbit – known as the perigee.
When in perigee, the Moon is just 360,000km away from Earth, and around 50,000km closer then when it is at its apogee, the furthest it gets away from us.
The term ‘supermoon’ was coined in 1979 by astrologer Nichard Nolle and according to Nasa scientist James Barvin, “It is called a supermoon because this is a very noticeable alignment that, at first glance, would seem to have an effect. The ‘super’ in supermoon is really just the appearance of it being closer.”
The Moon will be closest to Earth at 11:25pm this Saturday evening when it will be 358,258km away.
If you miss tonight’s event, don’t worry because there will be another on the 10th August when it will be 1,362km closer than it is tonight. This will be the brightest it will appear all year.
A third supermoon will occur on the 9th September when it will be 358,387km away.
Hand held with my shaky paws. Can you image what a tripod would do?
This was taken 2 days prior to the full moon.
We woke up to 2 news fires this morning.
The Sugar Lake one is the oldest.
We did not see any blue sky nor sunshine this morning. Just a lot of smoke. Fortunately it rained and then drizzled a bit. Hopefully this will help our tinder dry forest.
We did have a spectacular sunset last evening. It was almost Arizona like in that it was 360 degrees.
But it did not cool down for hours. For the first time ever in this house we slept with our bedroom ceiling fan on.
Yesterday was hot with about 1% humidity.
Now today at 5PM we have a high of 89.6F including a humidity of 45%. Almost like the folks back East. It certainly is feeling close. No A/C today, as we usually don’t turn it on until it reaches 88F and with several more degrees to come. The thermometer only shows 86.9F not including the humidity. However we have finally resorted to turning on a few fans.
I find it rather funny that we are getting our heat from the USA.
Meanwhile the USA is getting cold temps from Canada. Global warming anyone? Taken from online news.
Let me get this straight, the US is responsible for our heat wave while Canada is responsible for the cold south of the border. Also taken from online news.
I give up. It is what it is. Thanks for stopping by.
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The moon is looking beautiful from Cabri as well. What a gorgeous sight it is.
We had lots of haze last week, well at least I thought it was haze then we found out it was smoke from fires up north of us but thankfully it has cleared up now.
Hope the weather cools down a bit for you as long as it doesn’t keep going down. We had a low last night of 7C but our daytime temps are beautiful about 24 and no humidity.
Contessa! Break your rules! If you are hot, turn on the AC. Life is too short for rigidity.
Cheers, Peter.
Nice supermoon picture.
The weather will cool down soon enough, turn on a bit of air conditioning for a while and have a break.