Category Archives: weather

Fire Fire Fire

January 30, 2014 – 11:32 am

It’s cold outside. 23F. Yesterday was even colder. 10F. I wish I had a fireplace. I dream of fires. Fires of any kind. They keep you warm in the cold. And afterward all that’s left is ashes in the winter wind.

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Tongue To Metal

January 7, 2014 – 7:18 pm

As a child I lived in maine, where winter was winter. A good time for sledding. At Pine Grove Primary School Skeeter Kearsy the school bully wanted to test the theory that if you put your tongue to metal it would stick there. No one told him to stop. He liked to beat up everyone. […]

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5 Days In Semi-Hell

July 18, 2013 – 7:08 pm

Last month New Yorkers were happy to not be involved in the Great Midwestern Heat Wave, however this week the Eastern Seaboard had been subjected to fury of 90+ temperatures. Every morning the thermometers start at 75 and then rise toward 100. So far we have been spared the triple-digit torrid torment, yet each day […]

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Warm Weather

April 11, 2013 – 8:37 pm

Warm weather bluffed the coming of Spring Cold winter rejected the season’s brief fling. Azaleas shivered under black lightning. Yellow jonquils fought off their floral fading. Today the gray clouds carried a day of foreboding. Tomorrow I pray for one thing, the sunshine. Same as everyone. I want warm. A POEM BY PETER NOLAN SMITH

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Weather in Wyoming

April 6, 2013 – 10:44 am

Today’s weather in Yellowstone Park remains faithful to winter. 30F and snow covering most of the volcanic plateau in the northeast corner of Wyoming. I have driven through that region in the late-April. The seasons change slow at that altitude and New York City is following the western state’s slow lead into Spring. Flowers are […]

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