Venus is brighter again, Jupiter is fainter. They are appear to be getting closer to each other. Imagine you are at a rock concert with semi-circular audience. In the above view you can’t see the stage (the sun). You are sitting on the left hand side of the stage (facing the stage) Venus is in the middle and half way closer to the stage. Jupiter is almost all the way on the other side of the stage and right up the back row of the seats.
Where I live I am surrounded by black silty clay. Black clay takes ages to fill up with water, and once it does, it takes ages to drain. Currently the clay around me is a dry. It will take a large amount of rain, say 100 – 150 mm, to top up the clay. This needs to happen before the ephemeral stream will flow. My dam will not fill until this happens. Once my dam does fill, however, it will take a good year for the clay to dry out, meaning that relative small rain events, like 25 mm could recharge the dam. Taken a few years ago. During our last La Niña event. Added for Jennifer’s Wet
It took a large amount of rain to fill the dam this deep
1 month later , a small rain took the dam levels here
3 months later, at the end of Summer, 25 mm of rain did this
I was bit worried the dam may burst. But that thick old black clay held.
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