Posts under ‘Cory Malles’

Hi all,
Ten years ago today, the town of Lewiston, Minnesota was struck by an F-2 tornado. Lewiston is located in Winona County, just west of Winona. Here is a cool link from the National Weather Service that has a lot of really cool detail about the storm, as well as pictures. http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/?n=lewiston
On this same date, [...]

Well… what a difference a week makes. Last week at this time, most of the La Crosse area was sweltering under temperatures in the 90s and high humidity. Summer had finally blasted into the Coulee Region… or did it? This week, temperatures plummeted into the lower to middle 60s for afternoon highs, along with cloud [...]

Thursday was Heat Awareness day in Wisconsin. It’s kind of hard to talk about extreme heat when we’ve barely reached 80 this spring. Since I’m sure we’ll see at least a couple of scorchers this summer, I’ve decided to do another session of Weather 101 to talk about the dangers of extreme heat.  Did you know [...]

Well… I just got back from a five-day weekend. I’m rested, relaxed, and even a bit tanned!
On Friday, I snuck out for a bit of fishing. I didn’t catch much, but spending the day along the water was more than enough for me. I spent Saturday and Sunday cleaning and finally planting the vegetable garden.
The highlight of the [...]

Last weekend, I had the chance to head up to Trempealeau to say goodbye to an old friend. This friend isn’t a person, it’s a building. I’m talking about Healy Memorial High School. The building was built around 1933 and served as the high school until the districts of Trempealeau, Ettrick, and Galesville consolidated in [...]