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Jupiter

May 27, 2017 @ 23:44 By: gordon Category: Astronomy, Photography

I shot this with my Tamron SP 500mm lens earlier this evening. With a bit of noise reduction in Lightroom, you can make out 4 of the moons.

-SHGSSNRA ???

May 08, 2017 @ 16:02 By: gordon Category: Weather

It has been a while since I grumbled about the weather, so here goes:

TAF CYOW 081738Z 0818/0918 31012G22KT P6SM OVC030 TEMPO 0818/0902 3SMĀ -SHGSSNRA OVC020
BECMG 0821/0823 30008KT
FM090200 31008KT P6SM BKN030 OVC050
FM090600 31006KT P6SM SCT030 BKN050
RMK NXT FCST BY 082100Z=

-SHGSSNRA ??? Seriously? I had to go to the magic decoder to find out what that was:

LIGHT SNOW PELLET SHOWER
LIGHT SNOW SHOWER
LIGHT RAIN SHOWER

Geez… that’s piling a lot of crap into one element in a TAF. And we need exactly none of it.

Volunteering to help with flooding efforts

May 08, 2017 @ 11:09 By: gordon Category: Current affairs

The City of Ottawa has set up a registry for people who want to volunteer to help out during the floods. You can go to the page here.