Big storms coming here tonight in Iowayland, on the border of Kansas and Nebraska, along the Mighty Mo. We have hot wet weather today, in the 80s. A freight train of a storm is coming from the west where it has dumped 9" of snow. Prescription for here tonight: Big storms, lightning, 60 mph winds, and a good chance of tornado development in the ( Read more... )

Moon waxing crescent, 23% full ( Read more... )

Mostly cloudy, 36/28 F. Rel. Humidity 52%. W 17 mph. Visibility 10 mi. Sunrise 8:11 am, sunset 4:59 pm ( Read more... )

I continues to snow here, off and on. The snow blankets everything a few inches now. The sun comes out, melts a little. Then a few hours later, another bank of snowclouds drift through, replenishing it ( Read more... )

First snow of season yesterday afternoon.

Over the last couple of weeks I have been noticing a new meme/phenomena being commented on, weird sounds being reported from all around the world. This post is an ongoing collection of comments/vids, along with my own observations and thoughts at the end ( Read more... )

Starting yesterday we had record snowfall, a foot of snow here in Helena ( Read more... )

We had a light dusting of snow last week, but today's snow is the first significant (1 in. +) snowfall of this winter.


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Part of the path of the anthropologist...not just cultures of exotic far-away places, but close-by places as well.. today's offerings...an essay on magic, a click for those interested in the deep green resistance, and a vid on "weather wars" and the weird stuff going on in the sky ( Read more... )

It's been a cold and snowy winter, and the prediction is for a cool and wet spring. So of course the global warming skeptics are out in full force. For those of you who disbelieve mainstream science in favor of getting your scientific reporting from Fox News: "...cold weather doesn't cause snow. What brings the flakes down is a combination of cold ( Read more... )