After months of snow and cold, Mother Nature has finally given us a break with an early March thaw. But as the snow piles begin to melt away, our thoughts in the StormCenter turn to where all that melted snow will end up. The answer is easy… in area rivers. What’s not so easy is [...]
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Buck up… it’s hunting season!
It’s time to dust off the blaze orange, sight in the rifles, and pick out your favorite spot in the woods. Saturday is the opening day of gun deer season in Wisconsin.
While I come from a family of hunter-gatherers, I don’t think I ever inherited the deer hunting gene.
I remember when I was a teenager and [...]
Nearly 70 years later, the memory lives on…
This week is Winter Weather Awareness Week. It’s hard to think about the hazards of winter weather when the mercury continues to stay at or above 50°. But, as we hardy Midwesterners know, the weather can change on a dime. And it did just that in 1940. On November 11, 1940, one of the deadliest [...]
Grab a rake! The leaves are changing…
Fall is my favorite time of the year. I love watching the leaves change from the deep green of summer to the reds, yellows and burgundies of fall. So what causes the leaves to change? And what conditions make for the most brilliant colors?
Well… the folks at the National Weather Service recently posted a really [...]
Jet Setting…
One of the most frequently asked questions I get deals with the jet stream. Okay… I’m lying. Nobody has ever asked that question, but I needed a way to get into today’s blog about jet streams.
One of the tools most meteorologists look at when developing a forecast is the jet stream. Jet streams are segments of fast moving [...]