9/6/03

The heavy rains have passed already...

Not clear skies, but, at least you can look out your window and see something.





Through 630 PM...scattered showers and thunderstorms will continue to move across the area. The strongest activity will lay across central Broward County. Activity will generally move east and northeast at 15 to 20 mph. The main concern with any of this activity will be brief periods of heavy rainfall...occasional lightning...and wind gusts to 25 mph.

Regarding weather and the skies... I learned a handy mnemonic last night about the moon phases... In summary -

A good way to identify phases (in the Northern Hemisphere) is to look at the night sky and remember the word "D-O-C." As the Moon cycles around the Earth and the Earth around the Sun, its position relative to the other bodies changes. The four resulting Moon phases are called quarters. The Moon is "new" when it comes directly between the Earth and the Sun and can't reflect much of the Sun's light. The first quarter Moon appears as a small crescent with the bulge facing to the right, as it does in the capital letter "D".

At second quarter, the Moon appears half full and resembles the letter "D". The light of the Moon increases each night until it reaches the Full Moon stage and hangs in the night sky like a great big "O." When the Moon decreases from Full Moon back to New Moon phase, the bulge moves to the left side, like a "C". When it reaches the fourth quarter stage, the Moon looks half full again.

I imagine the same could be said in the southern hemisphere, only to remember the word "C-O-D" instead.

Also, HOLY MOLEY!

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