Monday, October 05, 2020

"Good Night, Moon"

The waning gibbous

17.7  days old

90.7 percent lit

This is an article from mid-September. It is fairly level headed compared to some of the forecasts I have been hearing about winter.

September 17, 2020
By Hillary Gavan

Fall temperatures (click here) will warm up in the coming weeks under a reddish moon, and there will be an average-to-cool winter following the unique phenomenon of a “blue moon” in October.

Paul Collar, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Milwaukee/Sullivan, said it may feel cool now, but fall will be warming up.

“We are not heading into permanent cool. We will return to nice warmth next week,” he said....