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What’s in store for autumn 2026

Fall is that beautiful time between heatstroke and frostbite. So far this year we have been as cold as 14 below zero in January when we experienced a visit from the polar vortex and as hot as 97 when the heat dome that had been stuck in the southwest moved eastward bringing Uniontown that ...

El Nino and La Nina

El Nino and La Nina are Known in weather circles as the “Boy” and the “Girl" and also known to bring vastly different weather patterns to much of the planet. These patterns are born in the tropical Pacific and the Boy features warmer than normal tropical waters while the Girl brings the ...

It’s happening again

Remember the tobacco industry and their denials or the fertilizer companies that told us their products were safe? How about our governments that told us air pollution in our cities was just harmless haze and now we have our president telling us climate change is just a big hoax and the ...

Time to close up shop

I am sure you have noticed the loss of daylight as our evenings and mornings have lost a good bit of daylight. As the sun sets earlier and rises later this translates into less heat and in a couple of weeks the danger of frost will become part of our weather forecasts. In Uniontown the ...

The art of aging well

Aging is part of the process of living. Each day we are alive, we are getting older. I remember in my 70s talking about getting older with my friends. We were just getting older and then it happened, when I turned 80 I received a birthday card with a big 80 on it and at that moment I knew I ...

How was your summer?

Compared with last year’s drought and excessive heat this was a pretty nice summer. We did have a few too many rainy weekends but overall we managed plenty of nice, sunny, comfortable days and the rains we experienced kept lawns green and crops and flowers happy. Meteorological summer ...