http://sciencefun.today.com Exploring the World Around Us Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:43:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Leonid Meteor Shower is in progress and the peak of the show could yield 20 to 30 meteors per hour between the hours of 2100 and 2200 UT, today, November 17th. Folks in Asia could witness up to 200 or more per hour according to some forecasters.Right now, the ... http://sciencefun.today.com/2009/11/17/leonid-meteor-showers/ On this day in 1894, it was Election Day, and it was also a day of a major winter storm in Connecticut. This storm dumped up 12 inches of heavy wet snow and had winds gusting to 60 mph. There was damage to trees and telegraph wires. Another snow ... http://sciencefun.today.com/2009/11/05/election-day-snowstorm/ Our word for the week is Mutual Induction - in physics, the production of an electromagnetic force (emf) or voltage in an electric circuit caused by a changeing magnetic flux in a neighboring circuit. The two circuits are often coils of wire, as in a transformer, and the size of ... http://sciencefun.today.com/2009/10/17/mutual-induction/ Fall is here, the leaves are changing and we are having an abundance of sunny days and cool nights as we transition through from summer to fall and then soon to winter. We have averaged upper 50s for the highs this week and the mid to upper 40s for ... http://sciencefun.today.com/2009/10/10/weather-round-up-for-the-week-of-october-4th/ Astronomy happenings for the week include an astronomical gathering at the White House this evening. President Obama will host a ‘star party’ for middle school students on the South Lawn of the White House. Selected guest astronomers will be on hand to show the guests the moons of ... http://sciencefun.today.com/2009/10/07/star-party-at-the-white-house-tonight/ Boo! That is the name of this past week’s cache adventure and it was a fitting name for the cache was located on a trail adjacent to a cemetery in Concord, NH. It was an easy find once we located the trail leading out of the cemetery – many wandering ... http://sciencefun.today.com/2009/10/05/boo-cache/ Important notification! Due to excessive spam being sent via comments, the hosting company for this blog has suspended ‘comments’ on all blogs that it hosts. The company apologizes for this inconvenience as it works through this matter and comes up with a solution to control the spam. ... http://sciencefun.today.com/2009/10/01/important-notification-regarding-comments/ Our cool spell we have just entered her in New England is a reminder of what is to come. Last evening was the coldest we have had this Fall and in some areas in northern New Hampshire, they had a forecast for some of the white stuff, although it ... http://sciencefun.today.com/2009/10/01/nippy-weather/ The caching activity for this past week has been a struggle to round up due to inclement weather and conflicts at work with the regular routine that I run on Tuesday. I did manage to squeak out one on Friday of last week. The cache for the week was another in ... http://sciencefun.today.com/2009/09/28/concord-rail-trail-cache/   Fall has definetly arrived here in New England, both by the weather and by the calendar as we transtioned from Summer to Fall earlier this week on the Vernal Equinox. The weather has been on the Fall side with cooler temperatures and bright sunny days.   We started out the work week ... http://sciencefun.today.com/2009/09/26/weather-round-up-for-the-week-of-september-20th/