STORM2K

Posted: **Thu Nov 06, 2003 5:50 pm**

Good evening everyone. Good to be back here after a hibernation. Colder weather is on the way this weekend. Here in Maryland, high temps Saturday will only be 47-50 degrees with lows Saturday night between 22 and 30 degrees. The warmest spots will be in areas near the Chesapeake Bay, near the tidal Potomac and the cities of DC and Baltimore. The colder northwest suburbs will be even colder as is typical in this type of cold air scenario.

Also keep an eye out Saturday evening for the second total lunar eclipse of the year 2003. The moon will enter Earth's shadow beginning at 6:32 PM EST Saturday. Only folks in the eastern United States will see the beginning of the lunar eclipse and the lunar eclipse at it's entirity. Folks living on the west coast will see themoon rise during totality and watch the second half of the lunar eclipse.

The totality will last for only 25 minutes Saturday evening from 8:06 PM EST to 8:31 PM EST. The moon will leave Earth's shadow after 10 PM EST Saturday.

The next total lunar eclipse for the United States will last for 1 hour and 21 minutes at it's period of totality and will occur in October of 2004. Definitely enjoy this Saturday nights luna

Posted: **Thu Nov 06, 2003 5:55 pm**

WB, Jim! Thanks for the news about the eclipse.

What will folks in the middle of the US get to see?

Posted: **Thu Nov 06, 2003 7:45 pm**

WB Jim!

Glad to see you around again and thanks for the update!

Posted: **Thu Nov 06, 2003 7:56 pm**

Welcome back Jim!

Thanks for the info on the eclipse. I had no idea that there was one coming. At least it's not in the middle of the night either!

Posted: **Fri Nov 07, 2003 8:43 am**

Thanks for the info on the eclipse, my mom and I will probably keep an eye out for it.

Posted: **Fri Nov 07, 2003 5:35 pm**

Our viewing is supposed to be obscured by
clouds, here!

Posted: **Fri Nov 07, 2003 5:35 pm**

I'll have to walk outside and see if I can catch it....but if I don't it's cool, I saw it last time around!

Posted: **Sat Nov 08, 2003 1:30 pm**

breeze wrote:Our viewing is supposed to be obscured by
clouds, here!

Same here.

Posted: **Sat Nov 08, 2003 3:37 pm**

Hopefully the clouds stay away tonight so I can get a good view.

Posted: **Sat Nov 08, 2003 4:49 pm**

StormCrazyIowan wrote:I'll have to walk outside and see if I can catch it....but if I don't it's cool, I saw it last time around!

The last lunar eclipse (was only) the night of Thursday, May 15th into the early morning of Friday, May 16th (Eastern)

Posted: **Sat Nov 08, 2003 6:45 pm**

It's started already. The moon is huge and bright!

STORM2K

total lunar eclipse saturday night

total lunar eclipse saturday night