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Mars Has Bright Plans For Us This October
October Sky, it is not just the 1999 movie drama starring a then 19-year-old Jake Jake Gyllenhaal. It is also what our eyes will be looking up to for the next like three weeks or so. And Mars has bright plans for us this October. I for one will take advantage and will...
Colder La Nina Winter? ECMWF Disagrees – Hurricane “Delta” Threatens Gulf Coast
Fine Fall Weather Into The Weekend "October was always the least dependable of months, full of ghosts and shadows" wrote Canadian novelist Joy Fielding. True, October can be a dark, turbulent, windblown month, but if you're not a fan of freezes and flakes I have a...
2020 U.S. Tropical Landfalls – 20 Biggest California Wildfires on Record
October: A Month of Manic Meteorology Welcome to a fickle month of full-bodied weather. October has brought everything from 90s to flooding rains, rare tornadoes and wild winds. Frozen water, too. Average Twin Cities snowfall this month is .6 inches. We rarely see...
NOAA Turns 50 – Are Power Outages Increasing – Western Infernos
Warming Trend Likely Into Mid-October "Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace" said the Dalai Lama. I vaguely remember inner peace. Someone freeze me like a popsicle and thaw me out in 2022. I achieved some level of inner peace gazing at the...
Are Weather Forecasts About To Become More Accurate – Glass Fire Burning an Acre Every 5 Seconds
A Raw Weekend But Weather Mellows Next Week Weather is a metaphor for life: an unpredictable mash-up of good and bad, with only the illusion of control. In my muddled mind I consider the blustery showers rushing past my window cosmic payback for last week's 80s. The...
Heat and Wildfires Western USA – First Flakes Northern Minnesota by Saturday?
November-ish This Week, Septemberlike Next Week Winston Churchill said "We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give". I'm trying to call at least one friend, family member or colleague every day, to check in and say hi - see how they're doing. It's...