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Great Lakes Almost Completely Frozen

NOAA/NASA Yesterday March 4, the Great Lakes hit 91 percent ice cover, according to the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. That’s the most ice since the record of 94.7 percent was set in 1973, the lab said in a statement. Via Almost Completely Frozen, Great Lakes Near Record @ LiveScience.

A New Kind of Great White

Behold, the stupendous, astounding, gigantic… snow shark! (I’ve even added an exclamation point – fitting here, I think.) Watch the latest video at video.insider.foxnews.com

Ice Cream Eating Woodchuck

You may understandably have some disappointment with Punxsutawney Phil’s forecasting ability this year (over 81% of FW poll respondents said he was criminally liable for bad forecasting). Well, groundhogs and woodchucks are the same animal (Marmota monax), and you might want to see how contrite this groundhog/woodchuck is about his erroneous prediction from February. He’s…

Walk the City

Spring will arrive soon. Whitewater, Wisconsin is a small town. Even more conveniently, it’s a small town with an easily-walked, accessible downtown, west-side business district, and compact neighborhoods. In a time of warmer weather, there will be fitting opportunities to explore the city on foot. Whitewater’s full-time leaders – and especially her city manager —…

Phil the Groundhog’s Forecast

It’s Groundhog Day in America, and we’ve now a prediction from Punxsutawney Phil, the planet’s most famous groundhog. Phil’s call, not having seen his shadow earlier this morning, is for an early spring: On this February 2nd, 2013, the One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Annual Trek of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club at Gobbler’s Knob…. Punxsutawney…

Meditation to the Sound of a Blizzard

We’re a winter climate, and snow shouldn’t be stressful. On the contrary, hundreds of thousands have watched this soothing video of a snowy scene, with the accompanying soundtrack of a blizzard. Clear your mind, think of the snow, imagine the snow, become the snow… In only moments, our winter weather will seem magical yet again,…

The Exciting Season

The Ancients saw (as some peoples still see) autumn as the beginning of the year: one’s calendar started when one reaped the harvest. The year began not in the bleak months of winter, but amid the earth’s bounty, made greater through cultivation. Even now, our school year traditionally begins in deference to an agricultural schedule.…