Rehtional Thinking
Cover Up To Avoid the Chill
The wind is blowing today and the temperature has dropped into the 20s. We might get to the mid 30s, but you have heard the saying…’with the wind it feels much colder.’
Wind takes heat away from your body faster than when the weather is calm. The wind chill was developed to give you an idea [...]
Termites On The House
Noticed a piece of trim next to our garage door that had holes in it! Upon further inspection it was apparent that termites and eaten their way up from a concrete crack that allowed the little buggers to burrow their way from under the driveway slab up the wood siding.
We have a termite company that inspects our [...]
Why I Love The Weather
Yesterday was a great example of why forecasting the weather is fun.
While we had an active day here and thank goodness no one or nothing got hurt. We did set the December 11th daily record for rainfall at 1.4″
The weather was even crazier elsewhere…. Snow in New Orleans, are you kidding? No for the first time [...]
Charging For Waste
I admit, my mom drilled into me that I should clean my plate because… ‘there are a lot of starving people in China’. So to this day, I don’t waste food.
When I go to a buffet, which as I get older is a rarer event; I do like the fact that I can try things that [...]
Pattern Change, Warm Christmas?
Ever since mid November, we have had a weather pattern of below normal temperatures in the east and in the western U.S. it has been above normal.
I have seen this rule of thumb often over the years of forecasting…warm in the west cool in the east and visa-versa. The weather moves in waves and its [...]
How much snow this year?
Ever since the middle of November we have been mostly below normal for temperatures. The trend looks to continue into the weekend into next week.
Did you realize we have already had 0.4″ of snow this season? Most of it melted on contact when we had that brief snow on Friday Nov. 21 and flurries on [...]
Christmas Decorating Update
We got our Christmas tree over the holiday weekend and brought it inside. It is tall and slim, and very fresh. We go to a family lot that is located off Farrington Road in Durham. They bring fresh trees all the time. I hauled it home on top of my old station wagon and got [...]
Snow Removal Is Costly
On average we get almost 7″ of snow during a winter. I have been told by different city folk that we don’t get enough snow to justify the cost of having enough plows and resources to be able to clear the snow like they do up north.
Economically that makes sense, but it can paralyze us [...]
Leftovers
Have you had your last turkey sandwich for awhile? We continue to eat at least part of our Thanksgiving dinner everyday or so. Now, as we move into December, the leftovers are almost gone. It is always interesting to see what food goes first and what is still hanging around. It could be used as a good [...]
Raleigh Tornado 1988
Twenty years ago on this date a killer tornado unexpectedly touched down in Raleigh in the middle of the night. It flattened a K-Mart and killed two people in apartments, it lasted 2 hours killing another two further to the northeast.
That weekend was the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, I was working at WTVD at the time [...]
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