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This Week's Forecast

Monday, November 26, 2012

Snow Possible Tuesday, Chilly Rest Of Week

A crisp week of weather is ahead of us...and potential for some light snow on Tuesday in the forecast.

This month is shaping up as not only our first month of below average temperatures since August of last year, but also, potentially, the coldest November since the late 1990s.  Before you fret and wonder if this is the beginning of a long, cold winter of discontent, November is not necessarily a harbinger of what winter will bring. Several cold Novembers have been followed by warm winters (2007, 1997, 1996 to name three over the last couple of decades). This November will close on the same chilled note on which it began, as temperatures for the balance of the month will average out a few degrees below normal. Included in that chill this week is the potential for some light snow on Tuesday.  At this point, it looks likely that precipitation…

Monday, October 15, 2012

Indian 'Summer' is Here

After a frosty start to last weekend, a milder week is upon us in the weather world. Welcome to Indian Summer!

After a chilly start to last weekend, we have warmed up in a hurry and have a mild week on tap around the region, with considerably higher temperatures. Also, since many of us had a frost on the pumpkin or on the peppers in our garden, this week's weather is somewhat synonymous to what's found in a typical "Indian Summer" pattern. The term's usage was first attributed to the 18th Century and a French-American writer named John Hector St. John de Crevecoeur. De Crevecoeur wrote: "Then a severe frost succeeds which prepares it to receive the voluminous coat of snow which is soon to follow; though it is often preceded by a short interval of smoke and mildness, called the Indian Summer."   Other accounts, including one Canadian settler …

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