For all you lunatics. Have a blood sacrifice, or something.

But will it really be blue? Probably not. The date of a full moon, all by itself, doesn't affect the moon's color. The moon on July 31st will be pearly-gray, as usual. Unless....

There was a time, not long ago, when people saw blue moons almost every night. Full moons, half moons, crescent moons--they were all blue, except some nights when they were green.

The time was 1883, the year an Indonesian volcano named Krakatoa exploded. Scientists liken the blast to a 100-megaton nuclear bomb. Fully 600 km away, people heard the noise as loud as a cannon shot. Plumes of ash rose to the very top of Earth's atmosphere. And the moon turned blue.

Krakatoa's ash is the reason. Some of the ash-clouds were filled with particles about 1 micron (one millionth of a meter) wide--the right size to strongly scatter red light, while allowing other colors to pass. White moonbeams shining through the clouds emerged blue, and sometimes green.
http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/blue_moon_july_31.html

I'm kind of hoping for a volcano somewhere to erupt. :p

Blue Moon
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

Bomp-bompbabomp ba bompabompbomp ba ba
Dang-da-da-dang da dang-da-dang-dang da da
Ding-da-da-ding da dinga-dong-ding Blue Moooon

For all you lunatics. Have a blood sacrifice, or something.


http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/blue_moon_july_31.html

I'm kind of hoping for a volcano somewhere to erupt. :p


There's a volcano in Alaska that's active right now.

http://www.avo.alaska.edu/

I see the blue moon arising.

I see trouble on the way.

I see earthquakes and lightnin'.

I see bad times today.



Don't go around tonight,

Well, it's bound to take your life,

There's a blue moon on the rise.



I hear hurricanes ablowing.

I know the end is coming soon.

I fear rivers over flowing.

I hear the voice of rage and ruin.



Don't go around tonight,

Well, it's bound to take your life,

There's a blue moon on the rise.

All right!



Hope you got your things together.

Hope you are quite prepared to die.

Looks like we're in for nasty weather.

One eye is taken for an eye.



Don't go around tonight,

Well, it's bound to take your life,

There's a blue moon on the rise.



Don't go around tonight,

Well, it's bound to take your life,

There's a blue moon on the rise.

I saw the "blue moon" last night. It was actually a dusky dull orange color as it rose. I was coming home after dark from a friends house and had to cross a few miles of flat open brush prairie or barrens where you can see the low horizon all around.

I caught the moonrise perfectly just as it was had just come up over the horizon. I stopped my car and got out and walked into the field for a better look. It was a warm evening with lots of natural sounds, crickets, night birds. Very nice. Here (in the woods) I wouldn't have seen it for another hour when it gets up above the trees.

Active volcanos in Alaska, several earth quakes around Vancouver Island. Maybe trouble is on the way.

http://www.pgc.nrcan.gc.ca/seismo/table.htm