{"id":5732,"date":"2012-05-03T15:46:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T19:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=5732"},"modified":"2012-05-10T16:01:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T20:01:15","slug":"rosss-almanac-for-may-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2012\/05\/rosss-almanac-for-may-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"ROSS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S ALMANAC For May 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Compiled by Kirk Ross<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\nMarch called. It wants its weather back.<\/p>\n<p>Weather-wise, the third and fourth months of this year were pretty confusing. After a cooler than cool March, we finally had some heat early on in April before things reverted back to another cool spell, leading to the first real blackberry winter (a cold snap after the blackberries have bloomed) in a while. La Nin\u00c3\u00a3 was fading but strong enough to cause anomalies all over.<\/p>\n<p>At least the record-setting heat wave out west didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t float our way. But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s odd to have the quilt out this late in the year.<\/p>\n<p>The days really stretch out this time of year. By the end of May the days will be almost an hour longer than on May Day.<\/p>\n<p>May 1 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sunrise: 6:23 a.m.; Sunset: 8:04 p.m.<br \/>\nMay 31 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sunrise: 6:01 a.m.; Sunset: 8:27 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>  Full Moon \u00e2\u20ac\u201c May 5   Last Quarter \u00e2\u20ac\u201c May 12<br \/>\n  New Moon \u00e2\u20ac\u201c May 20   First Quarter \u00e2\u20ac\u201c May 28<\/p>\n<p>The full moon in <strong>May<\/strong> is the Milk Moon, Flower Moon, Corn Moon and Hare Moon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Planets &#038; Stars<\/strong><br \/>\nAt the beginning of May, <strong>Venus<\/strong> still shines brilliantly in the western evening sky. But by month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s end, Venus disappears into evening twilight on its way to passing directly in front of (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153transiting\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) the Sun on June 5 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the last transit of Venus of our lifetime! Reddish <strong>Mars<\/strong> appears in the southern to southwestern early-evening sky and Saturn shines farther to the east. This May is not a great time to see <strong>Mercury<\/strong> or <strong>Jupiter<\/strong>. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Amy Sayle, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>May<\/strong> is National Barbecue Month, National Bike Month, National Hamburger Month and National Salad Month. The second week of the month is Wildflower Week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Significant Dates<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 May 1 is May Day<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 May 2 is Brothers and Sisters Day<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 World Press Freedom Day is May 3<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 May 4 is International Tuba Day<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Cinco de Mayo is, well, guess<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 National Nurses Day is May 6<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 May 8 is Iris Day, Red Cross\/Red Crescent Day and No Socks Day<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Limerick Day is May 12<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Carolina Graduation is on Sunday, May 13 starting at 9:30 a.m.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day is May 13<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 National Bike to Work Day and International Museum Day are on May 18<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 May 21 is National Waiters and Waitresses Day<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 International Jazz Day is May 26<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 May 27 (and everyday) is National Sunscreen Day<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 National Macaroon Day is May 31<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compiled by Kirk Ross March called. It wants its weather back. Weather-wise, the third and fourth months of this year were pretty confusing. After a cooler than cool March, we finally had some heat early on in April before things reverted back to another cool spell, leading to the first real blackberry winter (a cold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almanac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5733,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions\/5733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}