As we approach the beginning of Hurricane season, it might be prudent to apply what we have learned from one of our earliest weather forecasters. Long before radar, satellites and El Nino and even before the invention of the weather barometer in 1643, an explorer named Christopher Columbus ...
Across Southwestern Pennsylvania June is another of my favorites. Although June 1st does begin the first day of meteorological summer, the intense heat and humidity of summer usually hold off across our area until July and August. Morning temperatures average 54 on the first and 62 by ...
An interesting story in the spring issue of National Wildlife magazine begins with the writer’s favorite slang expression, “touch grass,” which refers to kids who use it to refer to friends who are spending too much time online and have lost touch with reality. With those two words they ...
Warning lights are flashing according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization “WMO.” Mother Earth is being pushed beyond its limits and every key climate indicator is flashing red. Earth’s energy imbalance, the gap between heat absorbed and heat released, is the ...
Around here it was called “The Big One,” and the front page of the Evening-Standard described the quiet as local movie houses along with bars and restaurants were closing as our area was in the midst of a powerful storm that to this day remains the stuff of legend. The paper reported ...
It’s been a wild week of weather across Southwestern Pennsylvania. Some folks may think it was unusual, however old-timers and folks who have lived here for decades just see it as normal springtime weather. One day it’s winter and the next it’s summerlike and spring gets in a few days ...
