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(meteorobs) Re: "Meteor" Obser. Aug 6/7 ZAYGE
George,
I thought you might be in trouble last night, judging from the IR sat
picture I was looking at around 1 AM EDT. A strung-out batch of clouds
SW-NE was creeping up your way from Mexico, and already covered the eastern
half of the Cal-Mex border. Do you look at a sat picture before you head out?
The wipeout continues here. Haven't seen a meteor in August yet. Unstable
weather from SW off a steamy Gulf of Mexico (water temp 89 degrees) with
showers possible at all hours. By the late weekend a change might come ;
drying out with winds back to SE and isolated PM thundershowers. Maybe then
the AM hours will clear. Would be just in time for Perseid max. I don't
need the early PM hours anyway -- the Perseid radiant doesn't even rise
until roughly 930 PM. But by dawn (6 AM) it is not far short of the
meridian, so I still get my Perseid hours in.
Norman
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Norman W. McLeod III
Visual Program Coordinator
American Meteor Society
Fort Myers, Florida
nmcleod@peganet.com