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Spring Has Returned to Southeastern PA
By Roy Patton
Posted: 2020-05-24T16:08:00Z

Spring Has Returned to Southeastern PA

by Roy Patton

 

 

For years now, Spring has consisted of Winter, two days of warmer weather, followed by full-blown Summer. This year has been different. We are experiencing Spring in all its glory. Hot days followed by cold days, followed by rainy weeks, and then there's the almost constant wind. Best of all is all of the green is back! It seems Spring is back to being Summer's puberty. And just like human puberty, it is causing frustration in everyone who has to deal with it.

 

For those of us who enjoy Astronomy, that frustration comes when we have bright, sunny days (with no solar activity), followed by cloudy nights...every night. I'm pretty sure we've had three clear nights all Spring...and the Moon was full, or close to full all three nights.

 

I've been carrying my 6” reflector in my van since COVID-19 took over our lives, hoping to get out to the Knight Road parking lot in Green Lane to see if I can stick my DSLR on it and get some photos of anything (I don't know squat about photography). But Noooooooo. Summer has decided to hit puberty.