Here you see the Town pier in Naskeag Harbor at about mid-day yesterday. Tens of thousands of homes in Maine lost power during this storm, but we’re not aware of any significant damage done locally.
Driving rain and southeast winds that gusted up to 65 miles per hour slammed ashore, panicking the usually placid Harbor waters. And, it happened during an unusually high tide that was being influenced by January’s full moon, which also was rising yesterday.
Unfortunately, the storm clouds prevented us from getting a look at that full moon, which was named the Wolf Moon by early settlors who thought that it attracted hungry wolves. Thus began another false belief for those who are more credulous than curious when it comes to finding the truth. For those who hold such old (and perhaps new) false beliefs, here’s an “actual” photograph of January’s Full Wolf Moon:
(Pier image takin in Brooklin, Maine, on January 17, 2022; moon image created by merging two archive images, one of which was a Siberian Husky.)