Happy New Year!

We ended 2010 with a warm spell.






On Dec. 31, 2010 at 4:00 in the afternoon, it was 49.3°!



















This is how much snow we had at 9:30 in the morning on January 1, 2011!

New Year's Eve

Click picture for better view!

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This is how we would look if we attempted to stay up to usher in the new year!

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If there is something that only happens "once in a blue moon", tonight is the night for it! (following the "Calendar" timing, not the actual correct "Seasonal" timing, but Calendar is easier to compute!)

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The following blue moons will occur between 2009 and 2015. (These dates use UTC {Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is a time standard based on International Atomic Time (TAI) with leap seconds added at irregular intervals to compensate for the Earth's slowing rotation}

Seasonal -- Using the Farmers' Almanac definition of blue moon (meaning the third full moon in a season of four full moons), blue moons occur:
November 21, 2010
August 21, 2013

Calendar -- Two full moons in one month:

2009: December 2, December 31 (combined with a partial lunar eclipse in some parts of the world)
2012: August 2, August 31
2015: July 2, July 31
2028: December 31