When many of you head outdoors this season, whether for hunting or just to enjoy the crisp air, you’ll reap the benefits of technology and atmsopheric physics to help keep you dry. I still think one of the greatest innovations in outdoor equipment is fabric that is truly waterproof and windproof, yet allows moisture from your body to [...]
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Taurids, Leonids, and Geminids, Oh My!
Those of you spending time outside around Midnight these past couple of weeks have been treated to a great display of shooting stars thanks to the Taurid Meteor Shower. You may not have seen that many meteors an hour during the Taurids, but the few you saw likely were real fireballs — often slowly streaking across the sky [...]
Is Your Car Ready For Winter?
Winter is just around the corner, and the National Weather Service is making the week of November 9 Winter Weather Awareness Week in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Winter Weather Awareness Day is November 12 in Iowa. This is a great time to make sure you’re ready for working and driving in winter conditions — snow, ice, sleet, [...]
Tempus Fugit
Central Standard Time returns to the Coulee Region Sunday morning, November 1, at 2AM. It used to be easy to remember when it was time to “fall back” an hour — it was the last Sunday in October. This all changed in 2007, when the Energy Policy Act of 2005 went into effect.
This act is [...]
A Wet, Chilly October (So Far)
If you haven’t noticed, we’re in the middle of an unseasonably cool, wet October.
According to the Preliminary Monthly Climate Data compiled by National Weather Service for La Crosse, here’s where we stand:
Through October 14, our average temperature (found by averaging the high and low temperatures for every day) is 43.7 degrees Fahrenheit. This is almost [...]