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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Long Night’s Moon and cold moon
2012
Jan. 9th – Wolf Moon
Feb. 7th – Snow Moon (also Storm and Quickening Moon)
March 8th- Worm or Sap Moon
April 6th – Pink Moon (also Seed, Sprouting and Wind Moon)
May 6th – Flower or Hare Moon
June 4th – Strawberry Moon (also Rose or Sun Moon)
July 3rd – Buck, Mead or Thunder Moon
Aug. 2nd – Sturgeon or Corn Moon
Aug. 31st – Blue Moon
Sept. 30th – Harvest or Barley Moon
Oct. 29th – Hunter’s or Blood Moon (appears red/gold in the autumn sky)
Nov. 28th – Beaver Moon
Dec. 28th – Cold, Oak or Long Night’s Moon
2012 is a special year in that it has a Blue Moon on August 31st! When two full moons occur in a month, the second one is called a “blue moon”. They are quite rare and the next one isn’t until July 31st 2015. Be sure to make a wish on it!
http://www.moonslipper.com/MagicoftheMoon.html
xmas and the exe
flooding at the exe valley
The rivers Exe and Culm use the Exe valley as a flood plain to expand when necessary, ignoring the trainline from Bristol to Exeter, and the villege of Stoke Canon, which sits at the confluence .. the church is there from 1666 so this can’t be new to them
Rain radar for 20 Dec. 2012 . That’s what the Met Office+ had to say:
We all know the UK sees a good deal of rainfall, but it’s not often you cannot see the country at all on a rainfall radar image like the one below.
As you can see from the picture, taken from 6.50 am this morning, rain is falling widely across a large part of the UK. Some places have seen persistent rain since the early hours of yesterday (Wednesday) morning, with some fairly high rainfall totals. See rainfall totals on our blog at http://bit.ly/VTkVQ2 and keep up to date with warnings at http://bit.ly/T59NRG
winter Solstice 2012 gathering
This magical time of year again..
A short break in otherwise constant wet weather spell enabled us to enjoy a calm and mild evening on Exmouth beach, to mark the sunset (well it was overcast) of the shortest day of the year.
water temperature 11.4 C at Sidmouth, 0.4 degrees colder than last year …. http://outdors.posterous.com/christmas-2011
few more pics here:
http://365project.org/bug/365/2012-12-21
and last year’s gathering: http://outdors.posterous.com/winter-solstice-get-together
and an inmated gif that requires a powerfull druid spell to work:
Met Office white Christmas
<br/>Source: metoffice.gov.uk<br/>
Almost Solstice, almost sunset
Winter Solstice trivia: Although the winter solstice is the shortest day, its not the day when the sunset is earliest (15 Dec.), and not the day when sunrise is latest (1 Jan.)
Dec. 21st is just 2 sec. shorter than it neigbours, but this different is not constant and the length of the days changes dramatically around the spring and autumn equinox to almost 4 min. per day
Flying a Cat – Deep December sailing
Overly Motivated
Pictures for Avi’s Google maps:
<br /><small>View Overly Motivated, 08/12/12 in a larger map</small>
Mostly Outdoors 