When you add it all up, Friday was a perfect 10. The ingredients of sunshine, dry air, a slight breeze, and highs of seventy are exceptionally hard to bundle in mid-November. My guess is that the odds of that combination are at best 1 percent. The hardest element to achieve is the light winds. Typically, 70 degree days in November come with gusty south winds up to 30 mph, which tempers some of the warmth. Some say there is no such thing as perfection, I say Friday was as clos

FOOD FOR THOUGHT Let's begin today's blog with some food for thought. My climate guy, Steve Gottschalk was poking around yesterday and came up with something I deemed interesting. He decided to look at his 10 coldest Decembers to see what the previous month's temperatures were like in the hopes of coming up with some analogs that might give us a clue as to what to expect this December. His initial conclusions indicated that in the 10 coldest winters: 60% of the time July was

Temperatures will rise, and the skies will continue to shine as we remain on track for near record temperatures Friday and Saturday. The only knock will be the winds, right on through the weekend they will remain brisk, the price you pay for highs of 65 to 70. Before we get too deep into the weather, we were fortunate to have clear skies to witness one of the best displays of the northern lights I can remember, and I'm getting long in the tooth. Many of you must have agreed,

After our little fling with winter, there's a new sheriff in town and he means business. The law has been laid down, no cold, no snow, no wild west weather for at least a week. By order of the law, peaceful weather is the new sheriff in town. Nip it in the bud! Before, I get to the possibility of a 70 degree high and near record temperatures, my climate and folklore guru, Steve Gottschalk, is taking a deep dive into some of the most notable weather events this area has seen d

Well, what a crazy weekend of weather. If you are a fan of variety, you should be more than pleased. We went full circle, with highs Friday in the 60s to wind chills by the end of the weekend that were in the single digits and teens. (In just over a day, it felt 50 degrees colder). On top of that, sunshine Friday gave way to rain Saturday that in many areas changed to snow Saturday night. While most of us experienced snowflakes, accumulations were generally no more than a dus