My mom sends along this photo of the view from my parents’ front door in Newington, Connecticut, after the latest #snowpocalypse to hit the Northeast: Wow. That’s a lot of snow. We don’t have nearly as much on the ground here in Denver, but it was still enough for Loyette and I to build her first-ever snowman:
I went on a bit of a Twitter rant just now, via iPhone while grabbing a coffee at Starbucks, after my phone got a CNN Breaking News alert which announced: “A now-retracted UK study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an ‘elaborate fraud,’ a medical journal reports.” Here’s the rant: What say you, @JennyMcCarthy? RT @cnnbrk: Study linking #autism… Read more »
It’s no #snowpocalypse, but 2011 will start in Denver with several inches of snow on the ground, and bitter cold in the air — 4 degrees now, below zero tonight.
As the Northeast continues to dig out from the Great East Coast #Snowpocalypse #Snowmageddon #SnOMG Blizzard of 2010 — or, as they call it in Buffalo, “December” — here’s an awesome time-lapse video from Belmar, NJ, which was right smack in the middle of the heaviest snow bands, and received a whopping 32 inches of the white stuff: December 2010… Read more »
That’s a shot, from our backyard, of the lunar eclipse nearing mid-totality a few minutes ago — prompting DU Bally to ask, “Where’d the Moon go, and what’s that reddish-orange thing in the sky? Is it a basketball?” But seriously, folks. There’s a good show happening in the sky. Two more pics below.
There’s a total lunar eclipse tonight, visible in its entirety throughout the U.S. Here’s a complete timetable of eclipse events. Below are the key times, in Mountain Standard Time. (Add 2 hours for Eastern Time, add 1 for Central, or subtract 1 for Pacific.) 11:33 PM: Partial eclipse starts (first “bite” of the dark umbral shadow appears) 12:41 AM: Totality… Read more »
Awesome video of the cave-in:
Hmm… A NASA press release announcing “an astrobiology finding” — something that will impact the search for extraterrestrial life — has sent shockwaves through the blogosphere. The press release simply announces an event, set for Thursday at 2 p.m. EST, to discuss an astrobiology discovery “that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.” Astrobiology is the study of… Read more »
UPDATE: Here’s a closer view this morning of Igor and Julia — simultaneous Category 4 hurricanes in the Atlantic, only the second time that’s happened in recorded history: From Dr. Jeff Masters: The Atlantic hurricane season of 2010 kicked into high gear this morning, with the landfall of Tropical Storm Karl in Mexico, and the simultaneous presence of two Category… Read more »
As I tweeted yesterday, I’ve barely been paying any attention to Hurricane Igor, but he’s a Category 4 storm with 150 mph winds, and could potentially become the season’s first Category 5 before weakening begins due to increased shear. He could threaten Bermuda in 5-7 days, but does not appear likely to affect the U.S. beyond high surf. Igor is… Read more »