Archive for 2010

>You and others may be thinking, my wife included, that after a very accurate forecast for the first half of winter, February hasn’t been quite so accurate…Well I was stating to my wife that blizzard conditions yet again plaque the northern half of Scotland tonight. Snow was indeed hitting my truck windscreen this morning between […]

> Worst of winter is over, but scenes like this may not be over just yet VIEW FROM MY OFFICE LAST SUMMER: Warm days and lots of greenery and life to look forward to! Daytime temperatures are starting to reflect the stregthening February sun and the increase in hours of daylight, but there’s plenty more […]

>Lake Erie Frozen over; First Time in 14 YearsUpdated: Monday, February 15, 2010 2:58 PMFollowing a cold snap in the Northeast, Lake Erie’s surface is virtually frozen over for the first time in about 14 years.The ice ranges in thickness between paper thin along the northern shore and several inches along the southern shore, where […]

>Well, with all the talk these days about all that snowcover and remarkable snowstorms which have obliterated snow season records and even single snowstorm totals, how cold has it been? Well, in all honestly, the the cold temperature department, I have been somewhat unimpressed by actual numbers but when you compile the winter for sustained […]

>Snow covered ground from Canada all the way to the Alabama-Florida line helping cool the lower atmosphere and bringing the freezing line down to central Florida this morning… live webcam vew from Sears Tower this morningA beautiful fresh February morning. Lows in Chicago around 10 degrees, winds making it feel near zero degrees.Link: Link: http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims_gif/ARCHIVE/NHem/2010/ims2010044.gif […]

>Every state in the lower 48 has snow on the ground! This amazing image is one you don’t see very often. An image which displays snow on the ground in ALL 48 continental states. Alaska obviously has snow on the ground too so 49 out of 50 states have seen snow on the ground at […]

> Just within the past hour, my thermomter read a near-warm 53 degrees, when there’s no breeze and your in direct sun which has a real warmth to it now that it’s Feb 12th! And, yes I did step outside and enjoyed a few sips of my coffee sitting on my garden chair with an […]

>**BREAKING NEWS** Schools in Escambia & Santa Rosa Counties on the Florida Panhandle close in anticipation of snowfall…. Courtesy of AccuWeather.com Graphic courtesy of the NWS Forth Worth THE STORM TRAIN CONTINUES, NOW THE TRACKS RUNNING THE SOUTHERN STATES, WHAT AN EASTERN SNOWCOVER WE’RE GOING TO SEE ONCE THIS CURRENT STORM DEPARTS!!!! 11.2 Inches within […]

>Photos courtesy of the Baltimore Sun and AccuWeather facebook Baltimore’s inner harbor after storm Central Pennsylvania during the storm. Pittsburgh, Pennsylavania Walkersville MD – over 50″ in the yard now, the high winds and snow just would not stop yesterday. Still windy this morning. I’m not gonna wish for snow for a long time. Western […]

> http://vortex.accuweather.com/adc2004/pub/includes/columns/community/2010/bliz211a.png Snow Totals from Jesse Ferrell’s blog! Liberty, PA: 40.0″* Garrett, MD: 28.0″ Wisp, MD: 24.0″* Canaan Valley, WV: 24.0″* Davis, WV: 26.0″** Ortanna, PA: 27.5″ Mountain Creek, NJ: 21.0″* Wintergreen, VA: 21.0″* Ewing, NJ: 18.7″ Great Kills, NY: 17.0″ Chevy Chase Village, D.C.: 15.5″ Lucketts, VA: 14.0″ Bear & Wilmington, DE: 12.8″ Greenwich, […]