Weather

Enjoying the Snow

by JOHN ADAMS • 11/29/2014 • Comments

A Case Against Umbrellas

by JOHN ADAMS • 11/22/2014 • Comments

Dan Bransfield makes A Case Against Umbrellas. See what he finds — A CASE AGAINST UMBRELLAS from Dan Bransfield on Vimeo.

Friday Catblogging: A Cat’s First Time on Snow

by JOHN ADAMS • 11/14/2014 • Comments

Via Cat Owner @ Imgur.

Friday Poll: Whitewater’s First Accumulated Snowfall of the 2014-2015 Season

by JOHN ADAMS • 11/14/2014 • 2 Comments

What do you think – when will we see at least one inch of accumulation on the ground? Friday Poll: Whitewater’s First Accumulated Snowfall of the 2014-2015 Season

Great Lakes Almost Completely Frozen

by JOHN ADAMS • 03/05/2014 • Comments

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.

Animals, Holiday, Weather

Happy Groundhog Day 2014

by JOHN ADAMS • 02/02/2014 • Comments

The scene from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania earlier today, when Phil the Groundhog predicted six more weeks of winter —

Weather

Snow Rollers in Ohio

by JOHN ADAMS • 01/28/2014 • Comments

Via Rare snow phenomenon rolls up in Ohio.

Weather

A New Kind of Great White

by JOHN ADAMS • 01/07/2014 • Comments

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

Poll, Weather

Friday Poll: Whitewater’s first accumulated snowfall in the 2013-14 season?

by JOHN ADAMS • 11/22/2013 • 4 Comments

Here’s a new, third-annual version for 2013-14 of a poll I’ve published since 2011. When will Whitewater see her first appreciable snowfall? (Let’s say that an appreciable snowfall is at least one inch.) Comments are available, including for those outside the city who’d like to predict for their own communities. My guess for Whitewater: December…

Animals, Weather

Ice Cream Eating Woodchuck

by JOHN ADAMS • 04/12/2013 • Comments

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…

Beautiful Whitewater, City, Good Ideas, Local Government, Weather

Walk the City

by JOHN ADAMS • 03/19/2013 • Comments

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 —…

Holiday, Weather

Phil the Groundhog’s Forecast

by JOHN ADAMS • 02/02/2013 • Comments

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…

Weather

Meditation to the Sound of a Blizzard

by JOHN ADAMS • 12/20/2012 • Comments

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,…

Nature, Politics, Weather

The Exciting Season

by JOHN ADAMS • 09/04/2012 • Comments

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.…