Category Archives: weather

Radical Weather 2018

August 13, 2018 – 1:52 pm

Fires are burning the West of the USA. Fires also torched Greece, Spain, and France. Hot weather has torched America, Europe, and Asia. Rivers are dry across the globe. Drought has parched fertile farmlands. Summer has another month to run until autumn. The weather will be cooler unless it gets hotter and the world is […]

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The Blizzard Of 1978

March 21, 2018 – 9:11 pm

My friend Charlotte was scheduled to fly south to the Caribbean this morning. Her morning flight was cancelled by Jet Blue. A massive blizzard was predicted to hit the Northeast with up to 18 inches of snow. By nightfall the accumulation amounted to less than 6 inches. More is to come, but this snowstorm will […]

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Still Winter In March

March 10, 2018 – 2:02 pm

Last week I braved a Nor-easter snowstorm and crossed Brooklyn to lunch with Dave Henderson in Williamsburg. I had thought winter was over. I was wrong. My clothes were soaked by the slushy rain and the vortex sculptor asked opening his studio door. “How is it out there?” “Wet, heavy, and white like a check-out […]

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Mars Versus Mount Washington

January 6, 2018 – 6:58 pm

The atmosphere on Mars is a hundred times thinner than that of Earth. NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover has measured summer temperatures as high as 70 Fahrenheit or 20 Centigrade at the Red Planet’s equator, but as soon as the sun sets, the temperature can plummet to -100 F and -175F is not usual in the […]

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Cold As A Witches Teat

January 4, 2018 – 9:08 am

Tonight’s weather has been predicted to be the rainy, which will certainly be better that New Year’s Eve 2018, the coldest end of the year in the history of New York. I’ve been in other cold nights in this city. Most memorial. 1971. Doctor Nick, Wayne Shephard, Eddie Mickie, and Wayne’s sister drove up to […]

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