If you like afternoon high temperatures more in the comfortable 70s you will be happy Friday and into much of next week. Our flow of air was offshore Wednesday, helping us log another 90-degree day. The weather pattern begins to shift today, allowing air off the ocean to filter inland. By the weekend we will most likely have morning clouds.
Still no big rain producers in the offing, perhaps some drizzle at the coast and spotty areas inland. However, summer still reigns!
Did you get a chance to see the full blue moon Tuesday night? Weather wise it was perfectly clear. Speaking of clear, let’s set the record straight about the blue moon. Usually the only full moon in August is called the full sturgeon moon. The long-standing definition was that when a month had two full moons, the second was called a “blue moon.” This has been handed down for decades.
The first definition of a blue moon was the third moon in a season with four full moons, as we have this summer. This was mentioned in the “Maine Farmer’s Almanac” (now defunct) in 1937. In a 1946 edition of Sky and Telescope magazine, a writer interpreted the 1937 almanac incorrectly and made an error in calculations. They wrote that in a month with two moons, the second is called the full blue moon.