Rain Showers, Meteor Showers

Drizzling showers this Tuesday afternoon on California’s north coast as the latest storm has dumped maybe half-an-inch or more since yesterday — mostly light rain, though, on occasion the wet stuff can pound down. Forecasts are for a dry period tonight though tomorrow afternoon, then another system scheduled later Wednesday evening. Par-for-the-course in ‘conveyor-belt‘ weather.…

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Sky Fragments

Skies up along California’s north coast this afternoon makes seeing anything celestial a bit dicey, not there’s any reason specifically, other than more space-rock news, and ‘one strange asteroid:’ The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a six-tailed asteroid in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Scientists say they’ve never seen anything…

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