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Been a Fairly Long Winter

In my book, this has been awful long winter, getting started in November and having snow cover for most of the winter season. Winters like this are increasingly less common, and indeed compared to the 1981-2010 period, this was a fairly mild winter.

Cold Road

Meet the Computer Scientist You Should Thank For Your Smartphone’s Weather App

Meet the Computer Scientist You Should Thank For Your Smartphone’s Weather App

"A weather app is a nifty tool that predicts your meteorological future, calculated with the strength of radar, algorithms and satellites around the world. Today, computerized weather prediction—like moving pictures or flying by plane—is so commonplace that smartphone-users don’t give it a second thought. But at mid-century, the idea that you might be able to forecast the weather days or even weeks ahead was a tantalizing prospect."

"One of the most important breakthroughs in weather forecasting took place in the spring of 1950, during an experiment at the U.S. Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. For over a month straight, a team of scientists and computer operators worked tirelessly to do something meteorologists had been working toward for nearly a century: predict the weather mathematically."

March 1, 2019 11:31 am Update

Winter 2018-19 in Albany

The warmest temperature was 62 degrees (December 21st)

The coldest temperature was negative 8 degrees (February 1st).

8 days were in the 50s, 1 day was in the 60s, 0 days in the 70s this winter.

51 days were above normal. 4 days were normal. 35 days below normal.

Everybody is heading downtown

Where Does “In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb” Originate?

Where Does “In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb” Originate?

“In like a lion, out like a lamb” has always seemed a straightforward enough proverb: when March starts, it’s still winter, and by the end of the month spring has begun. True, in many climates the weather hasn’t quite reached the lamb stage by the end of the month—it’s more like a surly cat, maybe, or one of those awful territorial honking geese. But we get the idea. I have seen the phrase referred to as an “eighteenth-century saying” in more than one unreliable Internet source, while Wikipedia calls it “an old Pennsylvania” saw.