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Joe Schumacher
Published Aug 30, 2006
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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Today marks the seventh, and last, consecutive day of rain. It was a good run –3.31 inches fell in Central Park, but the streak itself falls well short of biblical standards. There's still enough moisture around to keep a few clouds in the sky today, but the threat of rain, and that stupid stationary front, have disappeared. Somewhat sunny and mild weather tomorrow will bring a little weather variety into our lives. Enjoy the sun while you can because it looks like Ernesto, or what will remain of Ernesto, is going to give us some clouds on Friday and possibly heavy rain and winds on Saturday. It is too soon for Gothamist to have confidence in the details, but Labor Day weekend is beginning to look like a total washout, with Saturday looking especially unpleasant. In the meantime you can amuse/prepare yourselves by watching any number of Weather Channel reports from the beaches of Florida letting us know that tropical storms are rainy and windy.
How would you amuse yourself if you were living on the International Space Station for months at a time? Why, you'd take photographs of the earth, of course. A quarter-million of them in the last five years to be precise. That works out to about 140 photos per day. Via NASA's Earth Observatory we learned of the Gateway to Astronaut Photography this morning. With a quarter-million pictures to choose from there are lots of New York and vicinity as well as the rest of the world. We particularly liked this nighttime view of our area.
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