It seems like just yesterday that Bucknell senior Kaitlyn Slagus was a freshman on the Belle Vernon girls basketball team with her older sister Jessica.Slagus and her classmates were honored on their Senior Day Sunday and then she earned her third Patriot League Player of the Week award this ...
Glaciers are melting, seas are rising and small islands are becoming submerged.A recent article in the January 21 Bloomberg Businessweek magazine stated that extreme weather tops the list of long-term risks facing the world. For the third year in a row, extreme weather events top this ...
By the time you read this, the Polar Vortex that paid a visit late this week with its frigid arctic cold and winds will have departed. Fortunately, Southwestern Pennsylvania did not get this worst of this cold as it was concentrated in the Northern plains and Midwest. Still it was cold and with ...
The same arctic air mass that brought zero temperatures to Southwestern Pennsylvania earlier this past week also was responsible for temperatures into the mid-forties all the way down the coast of Southwest Florida. Along with the cool temperatures, the strong cold front brought 25 to 40 mph ...
A few days ago, I heard a weather TV personality describe the upcoming weather for Sunday and Monday to turn wickedly cold. Another TV news program insists on using wind chill as the temperature instead of the actual air temperature or at least a combination of actual and wind chill. There is ...
After the continuous cool wet dreary weather of November and December, January appears to be on track for a more normal approach. So far, just a bit of cold and snow, a bit of rain and a number of sunny mild days.The frigid cold Arctic air remains locked up in the Arctic region, and so far, has ...
