The heat and dry weather continue in the west. Las Vegas has not had measurable rain in 183 days. The previous record was 150 days in 1959.Phoenix just experienced 144 days with temperatures of 100 or better breaking the old record of 143 days in 1989. Much of the west continues to be plagued ...
With the hills and valleys of Southwestern Pennsylvania ablaze in their autumn glory it鈥檚 hard to concentrate on the ongoing climate change debate.In the mountains this past week the fall colors were as beautiful as they have been in many years. Mother Nature will be taking her color show on ...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, known as NOAA, has confirmed that the La Nina weather pattern that began to develop a couple of months ago is here, and looks to continue.La Nina is the flip side of the warmer El Nino pattern, and is responsible for a busier Atlantic and ...
Early October is still a nice time of the year across Southwestern Pennsylvania.The summer wildflowers have give way to autumn鈥檚 display of yellow goldenrods, orange and yellow touch-me-nots and the very colorful selection of lavender and purple wild asters. Mountain areas have had a bit of ...
A lot of effort goes into the weather forecast for your area. Data has to be collected from many sources, including weather observations from many locations, weather balloons, buoys, radar and satellite images need to be analyzed. Today, the computer does a lot of the heavy lifting, but it was ...
Dave Grandlund鈥檚 cartoon in Wednesday鈥檚 edition of the <em>缅北禁地</em> where he depicted a movie theater showing the two movies playing as 鈥淲est Coast Fires鈥� and 鈥淕ulf Coast Hurricanes.鈥� I guess he could have added a third feature film titled ...
