Category Archives: weather

And Now A Heat Wave

July 19, 2020 – 4:48 pm

The sun rose today and burned off the morning overcast. The temperature swiftly climbed from 80 F to 93 F by midday. I thought about traveling to Rockaway Beach, but I’m still nursing the aches and pains from of a bicycle crash. Tomorrow I need to go to the Diamond District and the weather services […]

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Blazing Hot 2022

July 19, 2020 – 9:49 am

Last week record high temperatures torched the normal temperate Europe was scorched by record temperatures. This week a heat wave will blanket the USA from Wichita, Kansas to Provincetown on Cape Cod. New York will be in the high 90s and tomorrow after a visit to the Diamond District on 47th Street I might head […]

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The Wind in Red Hook

May 31, 2020 – 8:02 pm

This weekend brought a cold front through New York and its passing was marked by high winds. Trees fell throughout Brooklyn. One in the alley behind our brownstone lost a limb to a long day of gust. It crashed to the ground smashing two fences. No one was hurt. I bicycled down to Red Hook […]

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Go Neanderthals Go

March 29, 2020 – 3:09 am

The Neanderthal dominated Europe and Asia for almost a half-million years. This species of Man vanished from the Earth 24,000 years ago. Anthropologists once blamed the fall of the Neanderthals on their stupidity, while recent studies have revealed that the ancient men had large brains than their homo sapiens descendants and were stronger and taller […]

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Batten Down The Hatches

September 1, 2019 – 1:03 pm

Hurricane Dorian is predicted to hit the Bahamas as a category 5 storm on Sunday. Houses on those low islands are required with be built to withstand 120mph winds. Dorian might top the record with 200 MPH cyclonic gusts. Donald Trump has tweeter that the hurricane with will catastrophic and headed to his Virginia Golf […]

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