Category Archives: weather

MARC STEVENS BLIZZARD

March 30, 2019 – 6:59 am

Yesterday meteorologists predicted the season’s first snowstorm heading toward New York. Their forecast warned of a 6-10 inch accumulation or what I called a Marc ’10 and 1/2 Inches’ Stevens Blizzard. A real blizzard hit New York in 1978 and I partied with Marc and his tranny girlfriend Jill Monroe throughout the three days the […]

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COLD AS IT GETS by Peter Nolan Smith

January 31, 2019 – 2:02 am

Mount Washington is far from the tallest mountain on the face of the Earth, however in 1934 the summit observatory recorded the strongest wind on the planet at 231 mph or 372 km/hr. Winter temperatures on Agiocochook, or “Home of the Great Spirit” regularly dropped as low as -50F. Death from hypothermia can occur within […]

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Super Cold

January 30, 2019 – 4:18 pm
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Snow In Thailand

January 2, 2019 – 11:26 am

http://bangkok.travora.com/articles/cold-front-brings-cold-temperatures-snow-to-bangkok There is a cold season in Thailand. Winter arrives right before Loi Krathong. Thais bundle up in the North and even in Pattaya locals complain about the change in the weather. They grab their arms with a shiver. “Nao.” “Cold? I’ll tell you about cold. When I was a kid, you had to put […]

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Category 6 Hurricane

September 16, 2018 – 8:20 pm

The first hurricane of the season gathered strength during the storm’s slow progress across the Atlantic. Florence had one point has classed a category 4 storm and the Carolinas prepared for the worst, however the tempest weakened in the shallow continental shelf and struck Cape Hatteras as a Category 1 hurricane. A category 1 is […]

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