Starship Asterisk*

Beyond wrote:
I think the center of what little 'eye' was left to the storm, must have gone right over where i am. There was very little rain,and not many big wind gusts. It was more like a very windy day. If it wasn't for the power being out for 33 hours, i could have wondered what all the fuss was about. So i did have it better than a lot of people, a few of which still may not have power yet.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=52066 wrote:

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<<One week after Hurricane Irene battered the East Coast of the United States with damaging winds and flooding rain, a less-touted, plodding storm system soaked the eastern half of the country with more rain than its predecessor, and over a wider area. Tropical Storm Lee had a short official life as a named storm, but its effects lasted nearly a week.

Officially declared a tropical storm late on September 2, Lee reached its peak sustained winds of 57 miles per hour—well below hurricane force—on September 3 before making landfall on the Gulf Coast. By September 5, the storm was no longer a tropical depression, yet it was only beginning its march from Louisiana to soggy New England and the Mid-Atlantic.

The satellite image above shows the remnants of Lee and several other weather systems mashed together in the eastern U.S. at 10:02 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on September 7, 2011. Hurricane Katia whirls well out in the Atlantic Ocean, but plays a key role in stalling the storms over land.

As Lee moved north and east, it merged with a stalled frontal system. Meanwhile, Hurricane Katia was pushing north and west over the Atlantic, and blocking Lee from quickly moving east and offshore. The two storms aligned to pull copious amounts of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic. A meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Binghamton, New York, summed it up this way on September 7:

• {There is a} bad combo of ingredients in place to continue very heavy rainfall. A closed upper low continues to spin over the Ohio Valley, with a deep southerly fetch along the eastern seaboard, only adding to the moisture in place from the remains of Tropical Storm Lee. Water vapor loops show tropical moisture from distant Hurricane Katia getting steered all the way into the rain area.

Weekly rainfall totals topped 10 inches in cities and towns across eight states; another dozen states saw 6 to 10 inches. Jackson, Mississippi, received 11.68 inches of rain in just 24 hours. Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, recorded 15.37 inches for the week—more than three months worth of rain. Locations across Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Connecticut absorbed 6 to 10 inches of rain just days after receiving as much from Hurricane Irene.>>

Ann wrote:

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I like this picture, too. Could it be owlice out on her new bike, stopping a moment to give a tree a hug?





Thanks for existing, trees! Oh, how I would miss you if you were gone! Insert five "bawling smilies" here, please!




Ann

orin stepanek wrote: Ann: how do you know if the biker is a she?

Ann wrote:

orin stepanek wrote: Ann: how do you know if the biker is a she?

I don't, but how do you know she isn't?

Ann

Beyond wrote:My guess is...... That's one B--I--G tree

That was nice . . . enjoyed reading and viewing your 'last day of summer' post, it really carried me along for the ride.

The weekend weather was very pleasant here too (the Yorkshire Dales, in the UK)

but today it has been really windy . .

strong enough to bring trees down. Unfrotunately I have lost a lovely old Hawthorn tree that had so much gnarled character. The nest box I had placed in it provided a home to a twice-successful brood of beautiful Pied Flycatchers earlier in the year - they were lovely to watch and hear. Now the old tree is just a sad pile of twisted, broken wood on the ground.

The 'Dales' are narrow valleys that run down from the Pennine hills, further over to the west of the county.

HELLO!

starstruck wrote:
Hey Ann, yes, I am in North Yorkshire. The county town is York, where you visited that time and, you're right, there is a good deal of Scandinavian history and influence around these parts; it seems your ancestors were always popping over to say 'hello'!

http://groups.google.com/group/humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare/browse_thread/thread/cc446a9b6611fa16/87d81996217983e4?lnk=gst#87d81996217983e4 wrote:

Lars Finsen wrote:

James Enterline ( Author, _Viking America_) wrote:
The Latin name for York in Roman times was Eboracum or Eburacum,
perhaps reflecting a source of (walrus?) ivory in times past (?). It is well
demonstrated how new peoples keep old place names when they invade
a country, but they change the pronounciation according to their own
language rules. I think I can envision a smooth transition from:

. Eboracum to Eoracum to Eorac
. to Yorick to Yorvic to York.

I don't have any credentials at all, but the author of a book I have
copied, called 'Place Names in Roman Britain' probably has some.
According to him, the Romans took the name from British Eburacon,
which could mean 'place abundant in yew trees' or 'property of Eburos',
though the latter would be more probable in Gaul.

He doesn't go on to describe the later development of the name.

The Anglo-Saxon name was Eoforwic, changed by the
Scandinavians to Jorvik (both vowels long: Jórvík), which
then mutated to Jork/York in the post-Viking period.

The OE and ON names both suggest unetymological
interpretations of the earlier Roman and British names
(OE eofor = boar, ON jór = stallion).

Cheers, Carl
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Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge