Shine on, shine on harvest moon, up in the sky. And boy I can tell you with all the smoke in the upper elevations the moon Tuesday and Wednesday evenings looked like a big round orange pumpkin. Add the dark craters to the appearance and you even had a face. If you missed it, step outside tonight.
The full harvest moon is today and we will be lucky enough to have another full moon (once in a blue moon type), the full hunter’s moon on Halloween. Hopefully skies will be clear and not rainy and then you can say you saw two full moons this month.
The smoky skies also led to some beautiful sunsets this week. Unfortunately, California is still hot and dry and on fire. Our skies are a reminder of this sad event. Good news for us, the smoky skies will clear by the weekend as cooler ocean air filters inland and blows the smoke off to the east. That also means no more highs in the 80s but in the 70s, which seems more reasonable for early October. Our average high for today is 70 degrees, so we are well above normal.
I had an email from Mike, a faithful reader who like me doesn’t like temperatures over 80 degrees with high humidity. However, sitting on his back deck about a mile west of the Fargher Lake blueberry farm, he is enjoying the mild evenings watching the harvest moon rise. He observed two woolly bears heading north, maybe the mild winter approaching? Mike’s winter prognosis is since it rained in August, he expects a mild winter with less rain.
