“It was a dark and stormy night”… is how my uncle jokingly started the telling of some family history as we sat in the living room, all fully aware of the storm predictions and awaiting the next sidewalk report from my husband’s periodical trek to get the next load of wood for our stove. The […]
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Mud Season
Kathy Purdy describes her “mud season”. I loved her description of our ‘cold climate’ spring. When I lived in the city, the muddy thaw that segues winter to spring was never so noticeable, but once I moved to the country…. that muddy time consternated me. Here, the water is table is high, for one thing. […]
Can You Feel It? Fall!
theplowman.org Today the breeze blew in an unmistakable feeling of fall. It is still hot, it is still humid, but there is something about the scent of air and the feeling in the atmosphere that speaks of autumn. The breezes are brisker, the grass begins to green again for its brief fall interim of a […]
More On Predicting Weather
According to CBS News Sci-tech: “We’re seeing a shift to the La Nina, it’s clearly in the data,” NOAA Administrator Conrad Lautenbacher said. La Nina, a cooling of the mid-Pacific equatorial region, has not officially begun because it’s a process with several months with specific temperature thresholds, but the trend is obvious based on satellite […]
