Seasons don't mess around here in Wisconsin. They either show up to play, or they sit the bench. Spring, for instance, redshirted this year and we jumped right into summer, which is a glorious development, if you ask me. I like to think of summer as the Giannis of seasons, the kind you revel in [...]
"A southern wind smells like spring," Molly announced as we strolled through the woods on an unseasonably warm Sunday. So, we all stood still and took a good, deep breath. "Huh!" I said. "It does! How poetic. Where did you learn that?" "I didn't," she said. "I just think it does." Less than 24 hours [...]
We talk a lot about the "feels like" temperature around here, because not knowing the difference between air temperature and wind chill could cost you a couple of digits or a nose. On Monday, for instance, the air temperature when I woke up read a balmy -8 degrees, but the "feels like" temperature, thanks to [...]
Until Green Bay meteorologist, Justin Steinbrinck first mentioned it a three days ago, I had never heard of ice fog and I've lived through 57 winters. It sounded kind of cool to me, though, like something Jack Frost would dance through, or Alfred Hitchock would produce outside a dimly lit rear windows. Turns out, it's [...]
Sometimes, when all my people are where they should be, and my windows are closed, and my car is tucked safely in a garage, and I am not sitting anxiously at an airport gate, I like to watch a summer storm roll in.. I especially like to see it gather strength as it travels over [...]