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Mother's Day Fun Facts
Don't forget Mom as Mother’s Day is this Sunday! Mother’s Day Facts: 1st Mother’s Day: May 10, 1908; Founded by Anna Jarvis; made a national holiday in 1914 by President Wilson Busiest Phone Day: 68% of people plan to call Mom on Mother’s Day, totaling 122.5 million phone calls ...
April was cool and dry
For the first time in more than a year, we had a drier and cooler than average month. Back in January, 2011, temperatures were 2.8 degrees cooler than average and precipitation was about a half inch below normal. Temperatures during the recently concluded April came in about a half degree ...
Record heat in March
The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh reported that their average temperature in March was 51.5 degrees, the highest ever since record keeping began in 1871. Since our records began some 70 years after Pittsburgh’s, our 51.4 degree average temperature recorded in March has likely never been bested as well. ...
Historic Warm Stretch
The Mid-west and Eastern United States is currently experiencing a historic warmth episode that has never been experienced before. Locally this will be the 9th straight day with temperatures above 70 degrees in March as temperatures top out near 80 degrees for the second day in a row! Based on ...
Balancing an Egg On the Equinox: Fact or Fiction
Spring arrives Tuesday at 1:14 am with the Vernal Equinox although the weather we are currently experiencing makes it feel more like summer! It never fails this is the time of year that someone will send in a photo of an egg standing on end (and new this year brooms, ...
Balancing an Egg On the Equinox: Fact or Fiction
Spring arrives Tuesday at 1:14 am with the Vernal Equinox although the weather we are currently experiencing makes it feel more like summer! It never fails this is the time of year that someone will send in a photo of an egg standing on end (and new this year brooms, ...
Why is winter so cloudy?
Have you ever noticed how gloomy some winter days can be? As if the cold air wasn't enough, the clouds seem to never want to go away. Today's cloudy and cold weather is the perfect example (hence my motivation to write this blog)! Like anything else in life, there is ...
Mild weather continued in February
January was an unusual month, with above normal temperatures, precipitation, and snowfall. February came within a tenth of an inch of snow of duplicating that feat. Our average high temperature in February was 43.4 degrees, four and a half degrees above average. Lows for February averaged 5.9 degrees above ...
Meteorlogical Spring Begins
We made it through winter! Today is the first day spring. Now you are probably looking at your calendar and saying to yourself… “Doesn’t spring start on March 20.” Yes, the vernal equinox is March 20, which is when we have 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of ...
Leap Day
Happy Leap Day! Why do we have leap years in the first place? We define a year to be the amount of time it takes for the Earth to make one complete orbit around the sun. A normal year is defined as 365 days. However, if you measure the exact ...
Live Look at a Bald Eagles Nest
I stumbled apon this site last year and its back again. The link takes you to a live camera that is set up overlooking a bald eagles nestin Decorah, Iowa. Free desktop streaming application by Ustream.
The Year Without A Winter?
This stat pretty much sums up the winter that wasn't! Last winter we shivered through 48 days in which the temperature didn't make it above freezing at any point in the day. December 2010 alone had 24 out of 31 days with temperatures below the freezing mark including 16 days ...
Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine's Day! The warmest Valentine's Day in the Ohio Valley was 1949, that's when the thermometer saw a lot of red, as the high temperature reached 64 degrees. We all had cold feet on Valentine's Day in 1979 when the low temperature dropped to one below zero. The record ...
Average Highs About to Take Off!
For those of you yearning for milder days I have some good news for you . . . Old Man Winter's days are numbered thanks to the sun's strength as we approach spring. The average high temperature increases 3 degrees per week starting with this week and continuing into early ...
January Above Average
On the first day of January we hit 55 degrees. The last day of the month was 5 degrees warmer. So, it should come as no surprise that the month was a mild one, with temperatures averaging nearly 6 degrees above normal. The surprise is that January was also snowier ...
December Weather Typical For 2011
As December went, so went the year. Both were milder than average, wetter than average, and less snowy than normal. The last month of 2011 was another wet one, with 3.24 inches of precipitation, about a third of an inch above average. Snowfall was hard to come by, however, with ...
November Wet But Not White
If you were looking for snow, November was not your month. We had only a trace of snow on both November 11 and 17, and while the snow on the 11th actually tied the daily snowfall record, we ended up 2 inches below our monthly average. It was ...
October Keeps The Wet Weather Going
There was a week of dry and warm weather in October, but overall the month was cooler and wetter than average. From October 5 through October 11, no rain fell, and high temperatures were all between 72 and 79 degrees, with the 79 degree readings on the 8th ...
A Look Back At August
After a scorching July, you had to figure that August would be a bit cooler. Indeed, we were nearly five degrees cooler in August compared to July, even though August was a little warmer than average. The average high temperature in August was 81.8 degrees, just a tenth of a degree cooler than normal, while the average low was 62.6 degrees, 1.4 degrees above normal.
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