Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 17 Day: 112 Ave. sky cover: 5% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 69° \37°
Wind: 7mph \ Gusts: 16mph Red Flag warning from 11am to 7pm
Apr Averages for Flagstaff: 59° \ 28° (3 days of moisture)
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Weekly Observations
3- 5/1
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17-23
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18-22
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18-23
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21-5/2
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21-24
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22-30
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Daily Observations
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
The tunnel
fire remains the big news here. I have gotten several texts from friends
checking on my safety. I am 5 miles from the fire and not in danger.
The fire is
now 20,000+ acres, with 179 firefighters, 4–20-person hand crews, 4 dozers, 21
engines, one air attack plane, 2-Type 1 helicopters, and 2 type 3 helicopters,
with more help expected today. Plane and helicopters have been grounded many
times due to the 40+ mph winds. I am happy to see the number of people away
from the fires who have opened their land and buildings to support large and
small animals that were evacuated by owners. Flag really cares.
I was taken
aback this morning while reading the news. Several hundred Ethiopian young men
showed up at the Russian Embassy in Addis, the capital. They are volunteering
to help the Russians fight in Ukraine. The Russian Embassy said they did not
ask for volunteers, but took their information, including their military
experience, in case they are needed. Many of these young men were telling the
press that they can’t get jobs and need to find a way to feed their families.
So sad.
Favorite Memes
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A bit of Humor
Knock-Knock
Knock,
knock----Who's There?----Nobel----Nobel who?
No bell…that’s
why I knocked!
Trivia
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Spring
almost always arrives on March 20 or 21, but sometimes on the 19th. The reason
the equinoxes and solstices don't always come on the same day is that Earth
doesn't circle the sun in exactly 365 days.
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The fall and
spring equinoxes are the only two times during the year when the sun rises due
east and sets due west.
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On the first
day of spring, a person at the North Pole would see the sun skimming across the
horizon, beginning six months of uninterrupted daylight. A person at the South
Pole would see the sun skimming across the horizon, signaling the start of six
months of darkness.
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According to
Greek myth, the return of spring coincides with the return of Persephone, the
daughter of Demeter, who is the goddess of plants and fertility.
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At Chichen
Itza, Mexico, the Mayan celebrate the first day of spring with 'The Return of
the Sun Serpent.' On the evening on the spring equinox, the setting sun creates
a triangular shadow on the El Castillo pyramid that looks like a descending
snake, or the feather serpent god Kukulkan.
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Easter
always falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring
equinox.
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The fall and
spring equinoxes are the only two times during the year when the sun rises due
east and sets due west.
Historical Events
Ø 1056 – First seen July 2, 1054, the
supernova in the Crab nebula was last seen by the naked eye.
Ø 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés
established a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
Ø 1864 – The US Congress passed the Coinage
Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all
coins minted as United States currency.
Ø 1906 – The 1906 Intercalated Games, now
recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, opened in Athens.
Ø 1912 – Pravda, the “voice” of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, began publication in Saint Petersburg.
Ø 1970 – The first Earth Day was
celebrated. Earth Day was started by John McConnell, Denis Hayes, Fred Kent,
Pete Grannis, and Kristin and William Hubbard, and Ira Einhorn.
Ø 1983 – The German magazine Stern claims
the “Hitler Diaries” was found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries were
later revealed to be forgeries.
Ø 2000 – US Federal Agents seized
six-year-old Elián González from his relatives’ home in Miami and sent him back
to Cuba.
Birthdays Today
@92 – Charlotte Rae, American character
actress (died in 2018)
85
– Jack Nicholson, American actor
@81 – Glen Campbell, American
singer-songwriter (d. 2017)
76
– John Waters, American director, producer, screenwriter
72
– Peter Frampton, English singer-songwriter
@63 – Steve Fossett, American
businessman, pilot, sailor (d.2007; plane crash)
@62 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American
physicist, academic (d. 1967; infection)
56
– Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American actor
55
– Sherri Shepherd, American actress, talk show panelist
@53 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian
revolutionary, founder of Soviet Russia (d. 1924; strokes)
36
– Amber Heard, American actress
32
– Machine Gun Kelly, rapper
