Leonid Meteor Shower

It starts tonight! If you can watch it, do so! We had been plan­ning on dri­ving up to the north a lit­tle bit, per­haps into the moun­tains, to see what we could see. I even marked my cal­en­dar for this event, too. Of course, there’s a gigan­tic cloud cover blan­ket­ing all of Alabama for all of tonight. Even though the chance of rain is only 30%, that cloud cover is pre­dicted to hang around roughly til time for the sun to come up.

The kids have school tomor­row, but who cares? One of my first mem­o­ries was being woken up in the wee hours of the morn­ing to watch a lunar eclipse. Other impor­tant events my mom didn’t want me to miss, despite my incon­ve­nient sleep sched­ule include the sign­ing of the Camp David Accords and the wed­ding of Charles and Di, but those things really didn’t mean any­thing to me. They just annoyed me because they inter­fered with my sleep.

If you’re out­side of the Alabama cloud cover, you might want to take advan­tage of this oppor­tu­nity. The most active time is pre­dicted to be around 5:30 CST, so hope­fully some peo­ple actu­ally will get to see it. We’re trav­el­ling through enough space debris that the pre­dic­tions are for 30 mete­ors an hour in North Amer­ica. Asia should get an even bet­ter show. Let me know if you see any­thing! I hate that we’ll miss it, but there’s still a chance that there will be some more activ­ity tomorrow.