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So what happened to winter?

After temperatures rose into the 70s last month, the first week of February has recorded some additional mild readings in the 50s and 60s; and the coming forecasts want to keep our weather on the mild side. The Climate Prediction Center is keeping both temperatures and rainfall above average ...

Fifty years in the making

Starting with Brian Lohr, the nephews have been making their Super Bowl predictions for nearly two decades now. Brian made his first pick as a third-grader and is now a preschool teacher. Brian is going with the Kansas City Chiefs, 33-27, on the reasoning Patrick Mahomes is on fire and it's ...

Mahomes-led Chiefs will put up the points in SB victory

Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs have been lighting up scoreboards all season long, and don’t expect that to change this evening in Super Bowl 54 (I am not good at Roman numerals and too lazy to look it up) with the Chiefs piling up the points. Kansas City came from 24-down to ...

Defense still trumps offense in Super Bowl

Everyone seems to think offense rules in today's NFL and, therefore, Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs (-1) will triumph over Jimmy Garoppolo and the 49ers today. Funny, it was just a year ago the Patriots topped the Rams in the lowest scoring (13-3) -- and most boring -- Super Bowl ever. It ...

Anticipating Phil’s upcoming forecast

Winters attempted comeback in January just never lived up to expectations. It did get down to a low of 10 degrees one morning and 5 degrees was reported in the mountains; but this is January in Southwestern Pennsylvania and one must ask where was the cold air hiding?Turns out, the cold air this ...

Fans done right with Royal Rumble

WWE often times gets criticized for some of the moves it makes, but the Royal Rumble was a great example, for the most part, of the company doing right by the fans.Having Edge come back as a surprise entrant, although it was announced in this column a few weeks ago, and receive a massive ...