Looking at the title sounds almost like a 60s rock band, doesn’t it? Actually, I want to talk about precipitation. You’ve probably heard about acid rain and the environmental concerns associated with it. What it really should be called is “precipitation that is more acidic than normal” because...

We're moving into fall and looking ahead, the outlook for winter temperatures continues the trend toward warmer temperatures.                     La Nina  One of the drivers could be a return of La Nina, which you hear about every few years. A La Nina event occurs when there is a...

About 6:30 p.m. on August 9, I started getting pictures of ominous storms from my colleague Peggy Doty who lives in northern Illinois. While we were sitting with a nice evening sky in central Illinois, the northern part of the state was...

My blog post on “corn sweats” was widely read and got reprinted in some publications. In fact, it was read by an author of one of the articles I used as a reference.  Dr. Satish Gupta, emeritus professor at...

I have some pet peeves about weather casts. Temperature is one of them. During the summer when it gets hot and muggy, we start seeing weathercasters talk about “feels-like” temperatures. Media folks assume we know how they got those temperatures, which are always higher in summer than what the...

We watch the news, search the web, or go to the weather app to see what the great outdoors is like at the moment and what it will be for the next few days. You may go ahead and look at the weather map. It typically has many lines, symbols and colors. Any idea what it all means? A few years ago I...

People always are asking how much rain or snow you got at your location. If you like keeping track of precipitation, why not make it part of a vital information resource? The following information comes from the National Weather Service. The...