As the weather returns to its cloudy ways after the recent short respite I think we need some alternatives to keep the membership interested.
One that immediately occurs to me given the weather of the past two years and the short nights during the height of summer even when the weather is good is "Atmospheric Phenomena" - is there any reason why an astronomer shouldn't be interested in weather, clouds, etc.? We don't have to go the whole hog and join the
Cloud Appreciation Society
but we certainly need some fillers for all those long summer days and cloudy nights.
My own alternative activity for long summer evenings when the weather is good is solar observing, but that has not been a rich vein during the past two years.
Does anyone have any other thoughts, perhaps something that would fit the category of "Atmospheric Phenomena" as mentioned above, or online astronomy related activities that simply are not weather dependent?
  