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The joys of living up north 
The earth's "wobble" is looking like this...
This graph, though it only shows the past 12 or so months, has been showing an ever tightening circle. I started watching this since the 2011 earthquake in Japan. Each year the circle has shrunk in this fashion. Last night, while in town, I notice some unusual moving objects flying overhead so when I went home where it is really dark and looked at some stellar constants. What I noticed was a bit unsettling, like the Ursa Major constellation is pointing due south... seven weeks after the summer solstice (should be pointing SW about now) and the Milky Way wasn't stretched from SE to NW across the sky like it was last year and years prior but was nearly due south to due north instead. I went inside and contemplated that while checking this graph. It has been really warm for a week or so then really chilly and vacillating like that since April, and chilly at night which is kind of unusual, like in the 40s when it would normally be in the 60s or even 70s at times. Seen some nasty wind, hail and lightning storms quite often too.
Our wild flowers were six weeks early this year and migratory birds were at least that early and some species that never used to be seen around here have been here for two summers now. The sun rises and sets too far north. Bet we have an early and brutal winter. Seems like a "flash-in-the-pan" summer which will likely be followed by an early, extended and mean winter.
