{"id":6118,"date":"2012-08-30T09:33:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T13:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=6118"},"modified":"2012-10-07T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T13:27:08","slug":"rosss-almanac-for-september-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2012\/08\/rosss-almanac-for-september-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"ROSS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S ALMANAC for September 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Compiled by Kirk Ross<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\nSummer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s end arrives on Sept. 22 at 11 minutes prior to 11 a.m. By then, the fall cycles of daily life will have been in motion here for almost a month.<\/p>\n<p>From our hill south of town you can almost hear the school year commencing in late August. For a couple of weeks, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an ever-increasing distant roar of extra vehicles and HVAC units. Eventually, we hear the loudest outdoor sound the town produces \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Kenan Stadium after a score by the home team.<\/p>\n<p>This almost-past summer was a scorcher. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re lucky here in that we saw a good bit of rain during the heat compared to states west of us. Cooler weather in late August reminded us that long sleeves and nights under blankets are coming soon. But while the cool starts to creep in, there is one remnant of summer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s record heat to keep an eye on. The waters of the Atlantic Ocean\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hurricane alley remain quite warm, fueling the storms spinning off the coast of Africa around Cape Verdes as they make their trek west. The later-season storms are the ones we worry over along the Carolina coast and even far inland. As of this writing, a few such systems are spinning slowly through the tropics.<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 1 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sunrise: 6:49 a.m.; Sunset: 7:43 p.m.<br \/>\nSept. 30 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sunrise: 7:11 a.m.; Sunset: 7:01 p.m.<\/p>\n<p> Last Quarter \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sept. 8  New Moon \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sept. 15<br \/>\n First Quarter \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sept. 22  Full Moon \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sept. 29<\/p>\n<p>The full moon in <strong>September<\/strong> is known as the Harvest Moon, Barley Moon and Corn Moon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Planets &#038; Stars<\/strong><br \/>\nReddish <strong>Mars<\/strong> appears low in the southwestern sky in the early evening. Much of the month, <strong>Saturn<\/strong> can be seen to the right of Mars and above the bright star <strong>Spica<\/strong>, but by the end of September the ringed planet slips away into evening twilight. <strong>Jupiter<\/strong> and <strong>Venus<\/strong> are the brightest objects in the early-morning sky (other than the Moon when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up); <strong>Venus<\/strong> is the lower and brighter of the two planets. <strong>Mercury<\/strong> hides in the Sun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s glare all month<br \/>\n<em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dAmy Sayle, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Significant Dates<\/strong><br \/>\nSeptember is Hispanic Heritage Month, National Courtesy Month, Honey Month, Classical Music Month and National Piano Month.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Labor Day is celebrated on Monday, Sept. 3<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Newspaper Carrier Day is Sept. 4<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Grandparents Day and National Hug Your Hound Day is Sept. 9<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The National Day of Service and Remembrance is on Sept. 11<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Felt Hat Day and Puppy Mill Awareness Day is Sept. 15<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Mayflower Day and the Trail of Tears Commemoration Day share Sept. 16 (think about it)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Business Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day is Sept. 22<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Sept. 26 is Yom Kippur and Johnny Appleseed Day<br \/>\nThere are UNC home football games on Sept. 1 (Elon), 22 (ECU) and 29 (Idaho).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compiled by Kirk Ross Summer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s end arrives on Sept. 22 at 11 minutes prior to 11 a.m. By then, the fall cycles of daily life will have been in motion here for almost a month. From our hill south of town you can almost hear the school year commencing in late August. 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