Substorm all night long! Lady Aurora still partying, though letting up a little, the moon has the bigger boom box though I’m afraid. We haven’t been able to see much aurora color through the night, just a few light pink light pillars because the moon washed out all chances of sightings.

And indeed, the moon is the star of the show over the next couple days. From late tonight into the early hours of the morning tomorrow, we will have a total lunar eclipse which may or may not be visible, depending on cloud cover and where you are.

Here’s the NASA run-down. https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-march-2025-total-lunar-eclipse/

It’s really hard to say if the clouds are going to lift enough to see it. Some models are showing parts of where I am clearing out around 2 am. Totality for us will be at 2:26 am on March 14. So we have a chance. I suspect it may still be partly cloudy, but, we could get lucky.

This is the Blood Worm Moon, which I’ve always taken to be that the worms are coming out again, which they aren’t. Maybe somewhere, grimly noted, not here. Here, not many insects are moving around yet, let alone worms.

Well, I am justified to learn that the Said Worms are a beetle that emerges from bark somewhere else, in a time long ago, recorded in the 1760s when a Captain Jonathan Carver visited the Naudowessie (Dakota) and learned of this beetle. Apparently.

Further names for this moon are the Crow Comes Back (mine never left, still crashing on my couch) the Goose Moon, and the Sugar Moon. Now, there’s a name I can invest in. In the northland, the Sugar Moon makes sense in Mid-March. Though there are no where near as many buckets this year, which I hope is not because of some pestilence or other, possibly a borer. I do know that my two trees are suddenly in rough shape, which seems to have happened overnight, and I don’t know if I can save them.

Maybe the energy of this moon and this substorm will provide some answers, or a tree person is on here and will weigh in.

Hopefully this auroral substorm and the moon will give everyone a chance to pause under the majesty of the universe, if the clouds lift a bit. We could see some clearing of these clouds, but I think it will have a lot to do with wind direction and thermals resulting therefrom /land mass warming/air temperature. NOAA’s “earth weather” forecast calls for increasing clouds, with a high near 37. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon.

If the wind continues from the southeast from the afternoon into the evening, we’ll probably see continuing clouds. What to watch for is that wind clocking to the North or North West, which it may, because many forecast models are calling for continuing clearing into Tuesday.

I’m also sharing here a resource from NOAA for earth weather and wind- so the wind and the precipitation graphs are important. This is surface wind, but, if you look at the graph two down, there are these little “flag like” stick things that show you the direction of the wind, and how strong the wind is, plotted against the time. Sailors amongst us may already be using this graph. If you look, the “sticks” are starting to change direction right around 1 am, which could portend some clearing of clouds if we get northerlies. That’s what I will be watching as I can this afternoon, and you can, too! Or just look at the sky.

NOAA Weather Graph Data