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鈥檚 favorite slang expression, 鈥渢ouch grass,鈥� 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 鈥淲MO.鈥� Mother Earth is being pushed beyond its limits and every key climate indicator is flashing red. Earth鈥檚 energy imbalance, the gap between heat absorbed and heat released, is the ...
Around here it was called 鈥淭he Big One,鈥� 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 winter and the next it鈥檚 summerlike and spring gets in a few days ...
I woke up this morning hearing Bruce Springsteen鈥檚 song, 鈥淏orn in the USA鈥�. My morning shower changed the tune from Born in the USA to Living in Southwest Pennsylvania. Checking the morning weather, I saw that July 23 was the warmest day ever recorded on the planet. Records go back ...
