Space dust collects in the gears.The Earth's rotation varies by up to a couple of seconds a year. It seems to more or less average out. Makes me wonder why this might be? Earthquakes?
Add a festival day every year (many did) and and extra one every 4 years and their calendar would be just about as good as ours.I still like the Indians way of keeping up with the years using a turtle shell. 28 sections of shell around the outside for each moon, and 13 sections in the middle for the 13 moons per year. Comes out to 364 days a year.
Yikes. I'm wishing for the 60's, but from the other direction.It hit the high 60s today, but windy. It's supposed to rain over the weekend and possibly even some snow Monday morning. NOT looking forward to that just yet...
Good for you, bad for those who've already had a hurricane this season.Looks like Nate is going west of me, so no worries there. Hasn't even rained yet today. Yet. At 1730 it's mostly cloudy, 84F with 81% humidity. Forecast high/low of 88/77F with an 80% chance of rain tonight. Would love for it to hold off until morning, when I will do some chopping.
I dunno about that. The weather here nowadays is like the New Mexico of my youth. It could be 70s!Sister will be heading to Denver after the New Year for a month or three. She has been in Florida so many years, I'm afraid she is going to freeze.
Nate turned out to be a heavy hitter with the storm surge. I kept seeing storm surge warnings for my part of the Gulf, but I never thought it would have the punch it did. It must have hit at high tide or something, because it was a bitch.Good for you, bad for those who've already had a hurricane this season.
At least it's only Category 1 and it's moving fast, minimizing rainfall accumulation.
She has always said Florida cold is colder than western cold anyway.I dunno about that. The weather here nowadays is like the New Mexico of my youth. It could be 70s!
She's absolutely right. Between the high altitude and the low humidity here, a low number on the thermometer doesn't feel anywhere near as cold as it would in a damp sea level environment.She has always said Florida cold is colder than western cold anyway.
When I had cows to feed with an open tractor when it was in the 30's was the worse. You don't drive very fast. We never had enough antifreeze in the tires, so we had to wait until noon to risk moving the tractor.She's absolutely right. Between the high altitude and the low humidity here, a low number on the thermometer doesn't feel anywhere near as cold as it would in a damp sea level environment.
Coldest night I'd experienced in a long time was my first night in Ft Lauderdale- I was on the beach with the onshore breeze and it never got before the low 60s. Froze my ass off anyway! That very morning I had dragged my suitcase through a foot of snow on the way to the bus stop in Colorado and I wasn't a bit cold.