Donald's MNTornado blog

Hi all,
I just got home from my third hospital stay this year on this weekend. It's not that there is anything new wrong with me. Only that one of the problems keeps creeping up on me and is probably going to require surgery down the road to fix. Since I had heart surgery back in August, I need to get through cardiac rehabilitation therapy, or enough of it so I can take on surgery with out messing up my heart restructuring schedule. Too many things going on at the same time for me. I hope to be a lot more active online once I get through all this.

Explosion on Jupiter Spotted by Amateur Astronomers

Link to Explosion on Jupiter Spotted by Amateur Astronomers video

If you have trouble with the video, try going to this link directly.

http://www.space.com/17535-latest-explosion-on-ju piter-captured-by-amateur-astronomer-video.html

Looks like Summer is gone. At least for now. I doubt we are going to see any more warm weather till Spring, but this is Minnesota and you never know for sure what it's going to through your way.

Quoting MNTornado:
Looks like Summer is gone. At least for now. I doubt we are going to see any more warm weather till Spring, but this is Minnesota and you never know for sure what it's going to through your way.

Looks like I may have been wrong about that. The last couple of days, Monday and Tuesday Oct. 15 and 16 were exceptionally warm for this time of the year. One last hoora before snow flies? Well at least we will probably get some cold rain. We have been getting a little wet, but nothing serious except the drought we are in. Minnesota is in a pretty drought right now, so we will accept any rain or snow we can get. It's been so dry this Fall that a good portion of Minnesota has been in or near a RED FLAG fire condition for a while now. I thought is kind of odd coming home from cardiac rehabilitation the last week or two and seeing dust blowing in the wind. We don't normally get dry enough for the wind to pick up the dust in the farm fields and blow it through the air and definitely not for a week or more. Mind you the dust was not that heavy and I had to look really hard because it looked kind of like the fog we sometimes get in the early hours here in the Fall. Only thing is that this was at 2:00pm. I don't think I've ever seen fog in the mid afternoon, except maybe in Winter or after a heavy Summer down pour. This has been a really strange year weather wise for Minnesota. Gotta wonder how our Republican congressmen are going to explain this away, those who don't believe we are having global climate change do to an increase in global warming?

Finally, I have learned how to access my weather blog via the iPod I got from my son.