Royal Meteorological Chronicle: The Stillness of the Gibbous Moon
From the high tower of Scarlet Ridge, beneath a sky veiled in but forty-one parts of cloud, the waning wax of the gibbous moon casts a spectral silver upon the mist-wreathed shoulders of the Carpathians. The air, though temperate at sixty-eight degrees by the Fahrenheit scale, and twenty by the centigrade, carries a chill that creeps into the marrowβa dew point of fifty-eight degrees presaging the silent breath of the mountain. My mercury barometer stands at twenty-nine and ninety-four hundredths inches, steady as the pulse of a slumbering titan, while the western breeze, scarce three knots, stirs not a single pine needle. The mist, light and clinging, rises from the valley like the exhalation of a tomb, yet the sky remains clear enough for the moon's pale eye to regard our vigil with unblinking solemnity.
Meteorological Readings & Barometric Log:
β’ Atmosphere: Gothic Mountain Stillness
β’ Temperature: 68Β°F / 20Β°C / 16.2Β°R Mountain Chill
β’ Barometer: 29.94 inHg - Steady
β’ Wind & Squalls: West 3 kts Calm Air
β’ Station: Scarlet Ridge Observatory, Transylvania
β’ Observer: Alistair Sterling, Atmospheric & Barometric Scholar