Re: [Paddlewise] One bright thing pre Y2K

This combination also makes for some stupendous tides and currents.  At the Golden Gate Bridge, December 21 shows an excellent high of 7.10 feet at 9:38 AM.  I don't have the whole table here but I seem to recall that nearly the lowest low of the whole year follows directly ... a good day to be swept where you want to go, or out to sea like the canoeists in the Everglades.

I am taking Dec. 21 off to go paddling if the weather cooperates.

jerry.


At 01:20 PM 12/09/1999 -0800, ralph diaz wrote:
>I got this from a friend at UC/Davis who wrote:
>
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>This comes from a fairly reliable source on campus. I'm not sure that
>this
>full moon will be so much brighter than other December full moons near
>perigee, but still, it sounds like a record-setter and a remarkable
>sight.
>
>This year will be the first full moon to occur on the winter solstice,
>Dec
>22, commonly called the first day of winter.  Since a full moon on the
>winter solstice occurred in conjunction with a lunar perigee (point in
>the
>moon's orbit that is closest to Earth)  The moon will appear about  14%
>larger than it does at apogee (the point in its elliptical orbit that 
>is
>farthest from the Earth)  since the Earth is also several million miles
>closer to the sun at this time of the year than in the summer, sunlight
>striking the moon is about 7% stronger making it brighter.  Also, this
>will
>be the  closest perigee of the Moon of the year. On December 21st. 1866
>the
>Lakota Sioux took advantage of this combination of occurrences and
>staged a
>devastating retaliatory ambush on soldiers in the Wyoming Territory.  
>
>In laymen's terms it will be a super bright full moon, much more than
>the
>usual AND it hasn't happened this way for 133 years!  
>
>Our ancestors 133 years ago saw this.  Our descendants 100 or so years
>from
>now will see this again. I hope someone else might find this
>interesting!
>Remember this will happen December 22, 1999.
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>Sounds like a great night for an evening paddle; the waters will have a
>special silvery luster and shimmer to them.  FYI: In the NYC area the
>moon will rise at around 5pm on Dec 22nd and set at 6am the next
>morning.  Perfect!!!!
>
>ralph
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