Friday, March 20, 2015

Too Far South

Today marks the climax of a week full of remarkable celestial events.  It started out with an amazing display of the Aurora Borealis earlier this week, and today there will be both a “Super Moon” and a Total Eclipse of the Sun. 

That would be a pretty big deal except that here at the Boggy Thicket we are not in a position to see the Northern Lights or the Eclipse.  In fact, the Eclipse will only appear to be Total for a few dozen  Laplanders, or whoever lives in the Arctic north of Europe.

Here at home – as has proven true for most recent cosmic events – we couldn’t see it anyway.  We have overcast skies and a 30% probability of rain.

Spring does actually begin this afternoon.  The Vernal Equinox will occur at 5:45 p.m. whether it’s raining or not.  I guess we should be grateful for that.

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Updating yesterday’s post -  Spring did arrive on schedule, with partly cloudy skies and 80 degrees.  Meanwhile, a Czech tourist, who was camping on an island north of Norway to see the eclipse, was attacked in his pup tent by a Polar  Bear!

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