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
Weather
Meditation to the Sound of a Blizzard
by JOHN ADAMS •
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 •
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
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…