{"id":5952,"date":"2012-06-28T12:50:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T16:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=5952"},"modified":"2012-07-01T12:56:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T16:56:27","slug":"rosss-almanac-for-july-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2012\/06\/rosss-almanac-for-july-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"ROSS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S ALMANAC For July 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Compiled by Kirk Ross<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\nHaving recently found myself embroiled in the legislature\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sea-level rise debate, I can tell you that it is not uncommon in North Carolina to mix the anecdotal with the empirical. Since many of you are either engaged in science or know someone who is, please do what you can to help keep our science community from boiling over by mentioning \u00e2\u20ac\u0153global warming\u00e2\u20ac\u009d every time the mercury gets above 90 on the Fahrenheit scale.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Climate change\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is the preferred term of art these day, but I think our local climatologists would rather you just remark on the heat and be done with it, rather than trying to draw conclusions about what it means in the long run. This is not to say that one shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be concerned about climate change; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just that using the amount of water the dog is lapping up as an indicator is probably off base.<\/p>\n<p>As readers of this almanac are well aware, we crossed an important line in the third week in June, and, yes, winter is coming on. Feel free to get in as many runs through the sprinkler as you can. The heat and extra daylight will fade before you know it.<\/p>\n<p>July 1 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sunrise: 6:04 a.m.; Sunset: 8:37 p.m.<br \/>\nJuly 31 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sunrise: 6:23 a.m.; Sunset: 8:21 p.m.<br \/>\n Full Moon \u00e2\u20ac\u201c July 3  Last Quarter \u00e2\u20ac\u201c July 10<br \/>\n New Moon \u00e2\u20ac\u201c July 19  First Quarter \u00e2\u20ac\u201c July 26<\/p>\n<p>The full moon in <strong>July<\/strong> is the Hay Moon, Buck Moon and Thunder Moon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Planets &#038; Stars<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Mercury<\/strong> lies low in the western evening twilight at the beginning of July but soon disappears into the Sun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s glare. <strong>Mars<\/strong> and <strong>Saturn<\/strong> shine in the southwestern evening sky in the direction of the constellation Virgo. Watch over the month as reddish Mars seems to rapidly close in on Saturn. Early risers (or extreme night owls) who look east before sunrise will be treated to a view of <strong>Jupiter<\/strong>, and below it, <strong>Venus<\/strong>.<em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201dAmy Sayle, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Significant dates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>July is National Anti-Boredom Month, Cell Phone Courtes . . . <em>Wait I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m getting a text<\/em> . . . Month, and National Hot Dog, Blueberry and Ice Cream Month. (<em>There; the menu\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decided.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 July 1 is International Joke Day<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 I Forgot Day and World UFO Day is July 2 (<em>Coincidence?<\/em>)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The Fourth of July is an eponymous holiday<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 July 11 is Cheer Up the Lonely Day<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Bastille Day is July 14 (<em>Storm something<\/em>)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 National Ice Cream Day and National Cow Day are July 15<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Parents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Day is July 22 (<em>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dccause the kids are at camp<\/em>)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 July 30 is National Cheesecake Day and Father-in-Law Day<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Mutt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day is July 31 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compiled by Kirk Ross Having recently found myself embroiled in the legislature\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sea-level rise debate, I can tell you that it is not uncommon in North Carolina to mix the anecdotal with the empirical. Since many of you are either engaged in science or know someone who is, please do what you can to help [&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-5952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almanac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952","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=5952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5954,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions\/5954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}