by Paul Douglas | Dec 15, 2020 | Weather
Unsafe icePaul Douglas Smaller Snow Events Loom Larger Now ”Paul, back in my day we called an inch or two of snow FLURRIES!” I’ve seen variations of that theme over the years and I can’t disagree. The paradox: as winters shrink, Decembers warm, snowfall becomes more...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 11, 2020 | Weather
Santa Not Intimidated By A Mild December ”I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year” wrote Charles Dickens in “A Christmas Carol”. Neither Hanukah nor Christmas has been cancelled, but a blizzard of infection will make this a holiday season...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 10, 2020 | Weather
Mid-December or early October?Paul Douglas What a Wondrously Troubling December Go with the flow, roll with the punches. Someone should set that to music in 2020. My December gardening is not going well. I keep watering the hydrangea, but so far no sprouts. Mow the...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 8, 2020 | Weather
Tracking Inversions, Not Snowstorms Truth be told, I have an aversion to inversions. They annoy meteorologists and anyone else hoping to glimpse a little blue sky. Normally temperatures cool with altitude, but when the sun is low in the sky, feeble and ineffective,...
by Paul Douglas | Dec 4, 2020 | Weather
Just Over 3 Weeks Until Daylight Increases “Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for foregiveness, or else forgiving another” wrote Jean Paul Richter in the 18th century. As we head into the darkest months of winter and the pandemic I’m...
