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Cats, Weather
Friday Catblogging: A Cat’s First Time on Snow
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Poll, Weather
Friday Poll: Whitewater’s First Accumulated Snowfall of the 2014-2015 Season
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Nature, Weather
Great Lakes Almost Completely Frozen
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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
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Snow Rollers in Ohio
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Weather
A New Kind of Great White
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Poll, Weather
Friday Poll: Whitewater’s first accumulated snowfall in the 2013-14 season?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.…
Agriculture, Walworth County, Weather, Wisconsin
USDA declares 23 Wisconsin counties disaster areas
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Walworth County among them. Neither ordinary nor easy times: MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Federal officials have declared 23 counties in southern Wisconsin as natural disaster areas, making farms in those areas eligible for low-interest emergency loans. The counties have been baked by recent heat waves in which temperatures sizzled into the 100-degree range and left…