In San Francisco, Karl the Fog ate the Perseids:
I just ate the Perseid meteor shower. It tastes like blocked views and disappointment.
— karl the fog (@KarlTheFog) August 12, 2016
Here on Seattle’s Capitol Hill, we only had the clouds to blame. Intrepid CHS photographer Alex Garland set out early Saturday morning to capture an image of this year’s annual August pass through comet dust from Capitol Hill’s Louisa Boren Lookout. You can see the lovely streak of Perseid light above the darkness of Lake Washington at the center of the frame in the image at the top of this post. Not far behind that shooting star came the clouds, flowing in with the certainty that celestial events in Seattle, thanks to city lights and marine layers, are almost always a letdown.
I don’t see it. We’ve tried a few times to go out late at night to see them, and there’s just too much light in the city.