Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 27 Day: 181 \ Ave. Sky Cover: 30% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff
Today 84° \55°
Wind: 5mph \ Gusts: 15mph Air
Quality: Moderate
High Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 12mi \ Nearest
Lightning: 1mi
June Averages for Flagstaff: 80° \ 43° (1 day of moisture)
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Daily Observations
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Yeah…the monsoon returned for the last day of June. Lots of dark clouds, just awaiting the moisture. Moisture arrived about 1:00pm. Cooled things off quickly. It kept coming down hard, a shelter in place flood alert has been issued for burn areas.
I had a very
busy morning. I needed an ultra-sound blood draw, then it was time for my teeth
to get cleaned. My dentist became implant qualified a few months ago. I need two
implants, which may be cheaper than a bridge. I’ll find out soon.
The US
Forest Service is hard to understand. After our second fire, they closed the
forest. Now after some rain, they have opened the forest again. To say that the
locals are very upset is a gigantic understatement. I sure hope the Forest
Service knows what it is doing.
Ghislaine Maxwell
was sentenced to 20 years in prison. She was found guilty of assisting Jeffery
Epstein find underage girls for his deviance.
Trafficking
is horrific from the get-go. Now there were 51 dead immigrants in an 18-wheeler
in Texas. They had horrible deaths from overheating. Trafficking needs to be
addressed by Congress yesterday. This has been going on way too long. The
border is one hot-spot, the Tribal lands is another. Same promises, same
results. It seems to me that if the right is really pro-life, they would be
leading the charge to stop these unnecessary events.
The Secret Service
is denying the beast incident with Trump. Hmmm
Favorite Memes
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Earth’s Secrets
The First
Ozone Hole Is Still Healing
Scientists
discovered the first hole in the ozone layer, located directly above
Antarctica, in 1985. The Montreal Protocol of 1987 was the first plan approved
by every country in the United Nations, and focused on the restriction of
chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs that emitted ozone-destroying chlorines).
Trivia
Vitamin D is
unusual because it is the only vitamin that can be synthesized in the body.
Sunlight is the main source of Vitamin D, though sunscreen lotions with high
SPF can prevent vitamin D formation. Vitamin D is also the only vitamin that is
a hormone.
Insects such
as termites and ants provide 10 percent of the protein consumed worldwide.
Where insects are an integral part of a diet, they contribute as much as 40
percent of protein.
Historical Events
Ë 1831 – A patent for a platform scale was
issued to brothers Erastus and Thaddeus S. Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
Ë 1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate
(Huxley-Wilberforce debate or the Wilberforce-Huxley debate) at the Oxford
University Museum of Natural History took place.
Ë 1864 – President Abraham Lincoln granted
Yosemite Valley to California for “public use, resort and recreation”.
Ë 1886 – The United States Division of
Forestry was recognized and established by an Act of Congress
Ë 1894 – The Tower Bridge across the River
Thames in London was officially opened.
Ë 1905 – Albert Einstein sends the article
On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special
relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
Ë 1906 – The United States Congress passes
the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
Ë 1921 – President Warren G. Harding
appointed former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United
States.
Ë 1908 – The Tunguska Event happened near
Lake Baikal, Russia. An explosion
near a sparsely populated forest flattened 80 million trees over an 830 square
mile area and eyewitness reports suggest that at least three people may have
died as a result. The Podkamennaya Tunguska River is an explosive, natural
phenomenon that spans across Eastern Siberia.
Ë 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives,
Adolf Hitler’s violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, took place.
Ë 1936 – Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with
the Wind was published.
Ë 1966 – The National Organization for
Women (NOW) was founded.
Ë 1987 – Iran-Contra hearings aired during
daytime television, pre-empting most programming.
Ë 2019 – Donald Trump became the first
sitting American President to visit the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
(North Korea).
Birthdays Today
@92 – Lena Horne, American singer (d. 2010)
66
– David Alan Grier, American comedic actor
63
– Vincent D’Onofrio, American character actor
@62 – Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician, author (d. 1997;
cancer)
56
– Mike Tyson, American boxer
37
– Michael Phelps, swimmer
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