Last week in the Uniontown area, we notched four more days with temperatures of 90 degrees or better bringing our total for the summer to 24 days. In an average or normal season we see 11 days of 90 degrees or higher. It鈥檚 been hotter but that was back in the summer of 1988 when we reached ...
Most weather people consider the months of June, July and August as the meteorological summer. While September can still have some summer weather, the shorter amounts of daylight lead to somewhat cooler temperatures and less rainfall.So far this summer, June saw the 90 degree mark on two ...
Life has always been stormy. Some of the storms we encounter are minor, some are major and a few can be catastrophic. Every rainstorm has an end and many times sunshine does follow. Some storms are even beneficial and bring an end to droughts, refill our water supplies and put an end to raging ...
June wasn鈥檛 too bad with just 2 days of 90 degree weather and overall temperatures just 1.5 degrees above normal. July was a different story with 18 days of temperatures of 90 or better and averages 5 degrees above normal for the month.Each summer the Uniontown area averages 11 days with ...
Little did the people in France know that the dry weather developing across the area in the spring of 1788 would lead to a major change in the makeup of the political landscape in their country. Widespread crop failures came later in the summer and the wheat harvest was some 20% lower than ...
Furnace Creek, the name really tells the story. It鈥檚 a hot place located in the middle of Death Valley, California. Last Sunday, the temperature at the Furnace Creek weather station, which was established in 1883, hit 128 degrees. It鈥檚 been hotter. In 2013, Furnace Creek turned in what ...
