An interesting story in the spring issue of National Wildlife magazine begins with the writer’s favorite slang expression, “touch grass,” which refers to kids who use it to refer to friends who are spending too much time online and have lost touch with reality. With those two words they ...
Warning lights are flashing according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization “WMO.” Mother Earth is being pushed beyond its limits and every key climate indicator is flashing red. Earth’s energy imbalance, the gap between heat absorbed and heat released, is the ...
Around here it was called “The Big One,” and the front page of the Evening-Standard described the quiet as local movie houses along with bars and restaurants were closing as our area was in the midst of a powerful storm that to this day remains the stuff of legend. The paper reported ...
It’s been a wild week of weather across Southwestern Pennsylvania. Some folks may think it was unusual, however old-timers and folks who have lived here for decades just see it as normal springtime weather. One day it’s winter and the next it’s summerlike and spring gets in a few days ...
I woke up this morning hearing Bruce Springsteen’s song, “Born in the USA”. My morning shower changed the tune from Born in the USA to Living in Southwest Pennsylvania. Checking the morning weather, I saw that July 23 was the warmest day ever recorded on the planet. Records go back ...
After some decent weather in early April, our weather took a turn for the worse and the next two weeks were chilly, windy, wet and even snowy.Just about the time we grew impatient the winds shifted and a surge of nice spring air arrived this past week and made up for chilly days with ...
