Seen This Week: Sun and Unexpected Carbon

Early morning sun and fog at Duck Hollow, 25 November 2024 (photo by Kate St. John)

7 December 2024

This week the city received a light dusting of snow but the ground was not as beautiful as the sky. Two examples: Fog and sun at Duck Hollow before Thanksgiving, and a very red sunrise on 4 December.

Sunrise in Pittsburgh, 4 December 2024 (photo by Kate St. John)

What is this? An arrangement of black carbon.

Faulty oven creates black carbon, November 2024 (photo by Kate St. John)

These were the unexpected result of a faulty oven thermostat that carbonized the Thanksgiving biscuits. Fortunately that carbon is only skin deep. My niece cut off the bottoms. The tops were yummy.

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