About Frank Roylance
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Frank Roylance is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. He came to Baltimore from New Bedford, Mass. in 1980 to join the old Evening Sun. He moved to the morning Sun when the papers merged in 1992, and has spent most of his time since covering science, including astronomy and the weather. One of The Baltimore Sun's first online Web logs, the Weather Blog debuted in October 2004. In June 2006 Frank also began writing comments on local weather and stargazing for The Baltimore Sun's print Weather Page. Frank also answers readers’ weather queries for the newspaper and the blog. Frank Roylance retired in October 2011. Maryland Weather is now being updated by members of The Baltimore Sun staff
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I thought that moonrise was very impressive. Much better than I had expected and told others to expect. Frank, was it really that spectacular or did my poor feeble mind buy into the hype and I just think it was super?
FR: Maybe both. The rise of the full moon is always impressive, and moreso when we're really paying attention.
Posted by: Ralph | March 20, 2011 9:15 AM
On Saturday evening, while watching the full moon through my binoculars from my home in Joppa, I saw a jet transit across the top third of the moon from south to north. It was an incredible sight that I thought I would never see again in my life. Well, just three minutes later at 9:03 PM, I was ANOTHER jet transit the moon, about 5/6th down, again from south to north. That one left a three-plume contrail that dissipated very quickly. Incredible! I was wondering if anyone else saw it. I would love to see a video of a jet transiting the moon like that. Perhaps Youtube has one somewhere.
Posted by: KenJ | March 20, 2011 11:49 PM