Category Archives: weather

Slurpee Waves

January 3, 2018 – 11:59 am

The winter of 2014-2015 achieved record colds throughout New England. The accumulated snowfall in Boston towered over humans, shutting down highways and public transportation. Even worse were the incessant sub-zero temperatures freezing rivers and coating the ocean with a thick slush tapping at the coast. At the end of February Brian Sagar photographed a series […]

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Proof Of Global Warming

July 20, 2017 – 12:17 pm

The recent heat wave in the USA has not stopped the global warming denialists’ campaign of refuting science. I suspect many had failed the subject in high school. I responded to their fervent rejection of reason with the following logic. “Global warming is caused by Man’s not reading the bible. More sinners go to hell […]

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Big Weather on Agiocochook

January 14, 2017 – 11:13 am

This week California was pounded by a winter storm generated from distant ocean currents off the coast of Hawaii. Rain fell in torrents and ten feet of snow capped the High Sierras. At one point a meteorological observatory recorded Force 5 hurricane winds over 160 MPH. Treacherous weather to be sure, however on April 12, […]

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Colder Than Warm

January 8, 2017 – 7:26 pm

President-Elect Trump is a first disbeliever of Global Climate Change and this weekend most of America is in a deep chill. Florida is the only state without any snow or ice. North Dakota is experiencing double-digit subzero temperatures. Yesterday I walked to my store with my nephew. Snow swirled along Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene. […]

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Black Ice

January 3, 2017 – 2:00 pm

Yesterday smug northerners ridiculed the snowbound paralysis of Atlanta. “There was only two inches of snow,” sneered Jon Stewart of Comedy Central. ‘Maybe we should airlift Maine drivers down to the South to teach them how to drive in winter conditions,” joked a friend at Frank’s Lounge. My grandfather once said, “There are two seasons […]

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