Category Archives: Weather/Climate

Science Fair third place

Doss Elementary’s PTA newsletter confirms Mr. B.’s third place in the science fair. Along with twenty-two other fourth graders. Some of his friends on the list, more on the second and first place lists. Oh, well.

The projects are worthwhile, I suppose, in teaching science. But even the teachers know we parents have a big hand in these things. Without continual advice and goosing prodding, the kids would never finish them, much less do them correctly. They’re simply too young and science is too hard. (Unless you’re a climate researcher. Then you just make it up as you go along.)

Black Hills house almost ready

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OCS classmate Bob Phillips is finally almost ready to move into his own private retirement home in South Dakota after years of prosecuting in San Diego. “After we’re in,” he says, “it can blizzard all it wants.” Funny, but it doesn’t look as snowy there as in Dallas or, for that matter, in Georgia.

The Big Freeze

Not the ongoing snow/sleet/rain/cold event, but the Big Freeze of 1899:

“On this day in 1899, Tulia, Texas [south of Happy, “the town without a frown” in the Panhandle], reported the coldest temperature ever recorded in the state–minus 23 degrees Fahrenheit. This was part of the ‘Big Freeze,’ an infamous norther that killed 40,000 cattle across the state overnight.”

Rain

No snow, after all. Not even any sleet. Both have dropped out of the forecast. Just rain, and little more than a drizzle, at that. Mr. B. is tre disappointed. Texas boys down here see magic in snow. They see it so seldom in this part of the state. I realize some people would be happy to do without it.

Behind the climate hoax

climate_moneyVia the Science and Public Policy Institute.

The disappearing teddy

Cool time-lapse (called snow-lapse) photography here during the previous D.C. blizzard. The advancing one could be worse. But the teddy already is a soggy mess.

Here comes the snow

It’s official. The weather service has us down for sleet/snow Wednesday through Thursday night with nightly lows overnight tonight through Friday in the low 30s. The odds of it sticking, much less accumulating, are thankfully low. Nevertheless, I’m glad to see that Sol is pumping out spots again. I don’t think I would like another winter like the last two.

UPDATE:  Snow and sleet, briefly removed from the forecast yesterday, is back for tonight (Feb. 10) and tomorrow. Still no accumulation expected.