Log, May 15, 2009
I was at Frosty Drew early this week for a Board of Directors meeting. It was warm and sunny without a cloud in the sky. And all through the night there never was a "cloud in the sky" but there surely was one on the GROUND! The air was saturated all day long at nearly 100% humidity. As long as the temperature stays warm enough, the air is clear as can be but once the temperature drops below the magic "dew point" (which I think was near 57 degrees last night) fog forms. All of us have seen fog move in from the sea over the land. Last night I saw something else - fog forming in front of my eyes. It was moving, but just getting thicker in place. The Sun went from bright to palid to completely gone within minutes.I decided there was no chance for a seeing session tonight so I started home only to see bright clear sky by the gates on Route 1A. I hoped that maybe the fog was a local effect and went back. Within minutes the fog got so thick that from the fence in front of the Dome, I had trouble seeing trees on the far side of the dome. I left again, and this time made it all the way to Route 1 before the fog was reasonably thin. BY the time I drove up Route 78, the air was clear north of the railway tracks but dense behind. Later in the evening, the stars came out at the house and then within minutes, they two disappeared. The fog remained until the sun warmed the air this morning.We have recently had problems with service providers like AOL thinking that these log postings are SPAM. SPAM, unsolicited emails which you cannot turn off, are offensive without a doubt. However these log postings are not unsolicited (you have to send us a note requesting to be put on the list) and you can easily turn off the mailings by sending a note to Joe Hartley (joe@frostydrew.org) asking to be removed. You could even use mail filters to send the log postings directly to the recycle bin. When you employ a service provider's email filters and call us SPAM, you not only get yourself removed from the postings but everyone else who uses that service provider. For a large provider like AOL or COX this means a very large number of people. We ask anyone who does not want these postings to contact Joe saying you'd like to be removed.-Les Coleman
