Juliancolton

Nature is healing. A full-halo on LASCO, albeit somewhat faint. That Goddard 6z/9 estimated arrival would be perfectly timed to connect with the CIR shock already en route, so maybe we'll get some nice numbers. Hopefully this cycle doesn't pick up where the last one left off with impact invariably happening at like 8 am.

Agree with the sentiment but formally request subbing out Jan 16 for Feb 14.

One reassuring thing is that the stakes are just as high for big pharma as they are for everyone else, if not higher. If there's even a shadow of an issue with one of the vaccines, you know competitors will put it on full blast. There's no cutting corners or sweeping things under the rug when multiple players are at comparable stages in the process and desperate for any chance to get a leg up.

The whole thing worked pretty counterintuitively here. Dutchess had five early voting sites and each one had a multiple-hour wait at all hours on all days. Roads shut down, illegal parking all over, the whole nine yards. Today, when you have to vote in your designated precinct, wait time is zero at all but a couple sites.

"I talked to a doctor who said COVID is no big deal" is a thing I hear almost daily from deniers. It's so, so far down the list of believable stories.

Yup, we're on the same page. Hopefully increased mindfulness to hygiene and distancing during virus season will keep flu deaths down as well.

I think it's here to stay, another strain making the rounds annually during the overarching "cold and flu" season. We have a flu vaccine and while it helps, we're obviously not particularly close to eradicating influenza from the natural reservoir.

One of the few things that everyone on the boards agrees on. Love to see it.

Sometimes plain-English terminology gets the point across adequately. You don't always need a turboencabulator.

It's not exactly a new phrase. The "bomb cyclone" syntax has made occasional appearances in the MWR since the mid-80s, with references to meteorological bombs more generally going back even farther. The media sort of made a mockery of the term in the last couple years, but that's no fault of its own.

It's been a while since I've seen so many different agencies submit their model runs to the CME scoreboard. The average arrival time prediction is early afternoon, because of course. https://kauai.ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/CMEscoreboard/

Up to Kp 5 tonight on what I think is the anniversary of that pretty good March 2015 solar storm. Nothing on the Sebec starcam and bright moon for the rest of the night means it's probably a snoozer.

Won't all the rain just wash away the dust? Think of all the effort that could be saved

This one has legs I think.

Probably a 175 kt super typhoon in the PHP.

It sounds like you have your bases pretty well covered! Yeah, handling the plants is a big contributor to spreading the fungus higher, especially if there's a lot of moisture around. At some point you just have to do what ya can and hope for the best. I neglected to get the first Sevin application out early enough this year, and lost a number of cucurbits to the beetles almost overnight. They seem especially bad in my area this year.

Early blight is pretty much impossible to completely stave off, but you can certainly delay the onset and slow spreading. The most important preventative measure you can take is to prune all leaves, branches, and suckers within about a foot of the ground. The disease starts when dirt containing the fungus splashes up on foliage, so if you can avoid that, it'll go a long way toward keeping the plant healthy longer. Combine that with a normal Daconil type fungicide, and fertilize with Neptune's Harvest or some other slow-release form of nitrogen to ensure that new growth keeps pace with the dying lower vegetation.

I took a weenie drive down to New Milford, expecting them to have gotten crushed under that western band. Actually got more snow back at home... seems like just a few inches of paste here. Still beautiful, got some nice photos at Lover's Leap https://i.imgur.com/yzCbnoI.jpg

Depends where you are in Arizona. There's a reservation that doesn't observe DST, within the Navajo nation that does, within the state that doesn't... https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2012-11-12/daylight-saving-donut-arizona-ken-jennings-maphead

Hey @IrishRob17, it's almost time to start our annual initiative educating people about the earliest sunsets being in early Dec.

You know, the oceans and the sun cycle. It's caused by... the oceans and the sun. Q.E.D.

Tickling 60 for a couple days in the typical warm areas doesn't really feel like it should count as a torch these days. It's all relative of course and I'm sure the departures are deep enough to qualify, but eh... November is a transition month and we're capable of much warmer, much later.

If you move beyond the local FM station playing Mariah Carey on repeat for two months, there's a wealth of pretty good Christmas music to be found with a little digging. The problem is that it takes some effort to find stuff that isn't just the 100,000th cover of O Holy Night so sometimes it's easier to just turn on the Warren Zevon or ELO and pretend like you're Jewish.

That's not a huge difference... they're both up around .9. A verification edge like that probably isn't even discernible without the numerical scores.