Tropical Depression Claudette – Day 4
Position: 34.7N 80.4W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: East-Northeast [070°] near 20 mph [31 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 35 mph [ 55 kph].
Wind Gusts: 45 mph [ 70 kph].
Minimum central pressure: 1008 mb.
Currently about 150 miles [ 240 km] West-Northwest of Cape Fear, North Carolina.
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the North Carolina coast from Little River Inlet to Duck, including the Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds.
A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect from South Santee River, South Carolina to Little River Inlet.
Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.
[For the latest information click on the storm symbol, or go to the CATEGORIES drop-down box below the CALENDAR and select “Hurricanes” for all of the posts related to storms on this site.]
June 20, 2021 Comments Off on Tropical Depression Claudette – Day 4
Litha
Today at 10:32PM [CDT] is the Summer Solstice, technically considered the “first day of Summer”, but the mid Summer by much of Europe.
Many Wiccans celebrate the day as Litha, while computer programmers honor their predecessors, the druids, who built the first solid-state computing devices, the megaliths, like Stonehenge.
The Slavs celebrate St. John’s Night, Иван Купала [Ivan Kupala], the battle between the White god [Белобог – Belobog] and the Black god [Чёрнобог – Chyornobog] for control of the Sun. The Black god always wins and the night begins to expand.
The sound track to the battle is Иванова Ночь на Лысой Горе [Night on Bald Mountain ] by Модест Петрович Мусоргский [Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky], which everyone should play very loudly.
June 20, 2021 Comments Off on Litha
