What is your weather like ... today

[j.w]

No 90* temps here but supposed to get into the 80's for our camping trip up north. I will definitely be sucking it up while I can. Never know what winter will bring us this year. Hoping for snow tho............of course.............why wouldn't I be?

 

[sissy]

Hit 100 here and in Danville it was 98 .Hope the rain holds off because I am off for Hillsville early am

 

[j.w]

Oh just want to let ya know there is gonna be a full moon tonight, second one this month and calling it a blue moon.
From ABC News:
Once in a blue moon, we get a night like this one. If the weather is clear, you will get to see the second full moon of the month -- or perhaps the fourth full moon of a three-month season -- or maybe an early "betrayer moon" (belewe in Old English) -- or any of half a dozen other definitions that have come up over the last 400 years. At any rate, the full moon of Aug. 31 has been agreed upon, somewhere, as a blue moon, and if you go out after dark, we hope you will enjoy its light.
The moon was actually at its fullest at 9:58 a.m. EDT today, which means it was below the horizon for most of the Western Hemisphere. If you saw the moon last night, you probably thought of it as full, and when it rises again tonight, it will still be plenty bright.
If it has even a hint of a blue tinge, please let us know immediately. Blue moons have very little to do with the color blue (although the moon can take on a blue cast if there is a lot of volcanic ash in the atmosphere). The phrase "once in a blue moon" has come to mean something that doesn't happen very often, and it's been a part of our folklore since -- well, nobody's quite sure.
Taken from the following site and here is a tribute to the late Neil Armstrong also: http://abcnews.go.co...09#.UEFZ4yIXHQs

 

[sissy]

They had it in the yahoo thing and even told how and when was the best time to see it .I just went out and looked but moon is still hidden by the forest of trees .I can see it peeking at me .

 

[j.w]

Still daylight and sunny here but I'll be going out later to howl at the MOON!

Wow here's an old one:

 

[sissy]

well finally over the tree tops but it does not look blue to me but sure is bright .

 

[j.w]

Ok here is your history lesson (taken from the net) for the day,lol:

Once in a Blue Moon: But Why is the Moon called Blue?





Today (August 31[sup]st[/sup] 2012) the full moon is blue, meaning it is the second full moon in a single calendar month, although, as anyone looking at it tonight will attest, it’s really just its usual colour. So why do we call it blue? Can blue moons really exist?
Strangely, the answer is yes. The effect of a blue moon can be caused by smoke or dust pollution in the atmosphere, masking any red or yellow light to leave only blue. A major volcanic eruption can achieve this effect if its smoke and dust particles are slightly wider than the wavelength of red light (0.7 micrometre). The Krakatoa eruption of 1883 caused the moon to appear blue for the following two years, and smaller eruptions, such as Mount St Helens in 1980, cause the same effect on a more localised level. But is this why tonight’s moon is called blue? And, if so, what is the relevance of it being the second full moon in the same calendar month? Well, the actual colour of the moon is a red – or should that be blue – herring as our blue moon has nothing to do with its colour and everything to do with its more sinister nature. Blue comes from the Old English ‘belewe’, which means betrayer. Tonight’s full moon is a betrayer moon.
The earliest recorded English reference to a blue moon came in a 1524 pamphlet vigorously attacking the Christian clergy. A line of the text reads: “If they say the moon is belewe (blue), we must believe it is true”. But why would such a thing ever be in doubt? And, if it is, who decides if the moon is belewe or not?
It all stems back to the Julian calendar and the reasons it was abandoned for the Gregorian calendar we use today. On average, the astronomical solstices and the equinoxes advance by about 11 minutes per annum against the Julian year. This meant that, over time, the date of these astronomical events bore no relation to what was actually happening in nature. This may have passed unremarked, but for its pernicious effect on the calculation of the date for Easter. When our clergy-basher wrote the pamphlet of 1524, this had become a serious problem.
Easter is unlike most other dates in the church calendar in that it has to be calculated afresh every year. In fact, Easter always falls on the first Sunday following the full moon immediately after the spring equinox. This rather convoluted formula was set down by the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325, when it presumably seemed like a good idea. By 1524, since the equinoxes had advanced by 11 minutes each year, the calculation of the equinox was totally out of sync with the actual seasons and, in some years, spring would have passed and the actual spring full moon come and gone before Easter was due.
Such a delay was important to people since Easter marked the end of the Lent fast; the sooner Easter came, the sooner the fast ended. Unlike today, where Lent lasts a fixed 40 days, it appears the medieval Church merely lengthened the time of fasting to accord with the delayed Easter. No wonder it was unpopular with people.
But what about the actual spring moon following the actual vernal equinox (rather than the date of the equinox set by the Julian calendar, which could be a while off)? Well, if the actual spring full moon occurred before the date of the equinox set by the calendar, the church informed the populace that this was not the full moon that marked Easter and that fasting would continue for another month or so until the first Sunday after the next full moon.
People naturally felt betrayed by such a move and blamed the moon itself for arriving too early. Such a moon was therefore called a betrayer or belewe moon. Today, we say blue, although it is now the second full moon and not the first in a month that receives the affix.
Did people really believe that the moon betrayed them? Look again at the line in that pamphlet, “If they say the moon is belewe, we must believe it is true”. I think people knew where the blame lay and, on Wednesday 2 September 1752, the problem surrounding the calculation of Easter was resolved when the Julian calendar was abandoned, coincidentally leading to a “loss” of 10 days. People objected to that too, but that’s a different story!

 

[sissy]

The moon is so bright that it is shining in the patio doors and lighting up the morning room and the master bedroom .Looks like sunlight at night

 

[CountryEscape]

It was gorgeous 2 nights ago, but last night it was cloudy here, raining. Got only inch of rain so far from Isaac, which is just fine with me! Supposed to hit again here around noon. I'm supposed to be cleaning today .... LOL ... this is way more fun, though. Windy day, ponds are full and overflowing lightly, so hoping we don't get several inches more yet. They predicted up to 7 or 8 inches, but I think that was people exaggerating at one point or another. I'm glad to have the rain, just don't care for more than a couple of inches in a day, thank you very much!

 

[callingcolleen1]

Was very nice and hot yesterday, today it is only 60 so far this morning, was up late last night playing by the pond with friend, had a nice fire going, drank some nice dark red wine, howled with puppies at the "Blue Moon"! It seems that the "end is in sight!" Found a few leaves on the ground this morning, some too in the pond..... waaaah!!! I'm going to miss Summer!!!!

 

[CountryEscape]

No leaves coming off of trees or changing here, except the trees that lost most or all of their leaves in the drought. Things have greened back up with the rains we've gotten, and still pretty warm, high 80's today and very breezy. I really need to stay inside and clean ... hoping to get some more rain so I HAVE to stay inside. LOL Company coming next weekend, this is my weekend to really clean the house ... sometime.

 

[addy1]

clean house ..............what does that mean?

 

[mtpond]

Windy and only 74 today. Pulled string algae out of the pond and now doing a water change.
My grandchildren are staying the night and we are about to go and look for frogs in our springs. Lol. Then we are going to plant some trees that I have put off planting long enough.

 

[sissy]

Was great today cloudy up in Hillsville most of the day with a nice breeze blowing and waited to rain until my way home with my treasures or junk or whatever you want to call it . :razz: Long day and downright pooped out .

 

[CountryEscape]

Well, round two went through, dumped another 1.2" of rain, although I could swear it was more than that! Stopped for now, but between 8 p.m. and tomorrow night, the rain chance is 70% except for maybe a couple of hours, so that means maybe more inches, although it could also just mean light rain that adds up to little or nothing.
This is my pond, looking out of the sliding glass door, open but I was standing on a chair in the house. LOL You can see that the stones on the inside wall of the bog are standing in water, so the water is temporarily flowing INTO the bog, rather than out of. And, water standing everywhere in the back pasture and to the side of the ponds in the second photo.

My property is pretty flat, but there is enough slope that after a few hours, the water will have drained away ... until the next rain comes through. I love rainy days, though ... especially when I'm sitting here enjoying it from the dryness of my home! Temps dropped after the rain to a pleasant 73 degrees, so windows are opened up once again, and AC turned off. Woohoo!!!