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Mistletoe. Eggnog. Fruitcake. The smell of fresh pine … These are quintessential Christmas traditions that the holidays simply wouldn’t feel as festive without! And when it comes to Christmas Day weather, a snowy “White Christmas” tops the list! Whether or not you’ll awaken to an official White Christmas (one inch or more of snow on
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Heavy lake-effect snows–half a foot or more in the traditional Snow Belt areas.
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Summer. Depending on where you live, you may be dreaming or dreading it. It is a season that many people take vacations and spend a lot of time outdoors. But will the summer weather cooperate for your picnics and parades? Will this season bring any relief to the drought-stricken West? Will the 4th of July
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Before we look ahead at the upcoming winter, we like to take a look back at last year's forecast. So how did our Polar Coaster forecast fare?
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Heavy lake-effect snow showers, squalls leeward side of Great Lakes.
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If you watch the nightly news, your meteorologist usually refers to “Doppler radar” or “weather radar” in the local forecast. But what is it, and how does it work? Radar’s Beginnings Radar was first conceived in the late 19th century by German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz who demonstrated that radio waves could be reflected by
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Find out how accurate our forecasts were over the last several decades of making weather predictions!
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Love winter or hate it, one thing is sure, there’s nothing like the smell of crisp, clear, cold mountain air to make a person feel truly alive. Air quality is often best in the winter time, when the weather works to “clean” the air, trapping ozone and other pollutants in precipitation or blowing them off
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What's the difference between sleet and freezing rain? How about hail? We explain.
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