Tag: Weather
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- 90° to -24° in five secondsThe sun is so amazing. It was -24° Real Feel outside, but our enclosed front porch was basically a solar oven. Also, I realized I can take a panoramic selfie. The panoramic selfie is not done in selfie mode. Rather, it’s…
- Average last one-inch of snow in ChicagoOn this day, is the average date when Chicago has its last one inch+ of snow. Appropriate that we got a bunch of snow this morning.
- Instead of 50 states, what if America had 122 states based on weather?What if the states were more balanced in size, ordered around population centers, and took weather into consideration?
- Soil temperature contains the recent weather historyObserving the fluctuations in soil temperature can be intriguing, as the soil acts as a record keeper of recent climatic events. Which makes sense, the soil absorbs the rain. The soil absorbs the cold. It absorbs the heat.
- When will the cicadas come out? Using soil temperature maps to predict their arrivalCicadas come out when the soil temperature is 65 degrees at 8 inches deep. A handful of tools will tell you the current soil temperature and forecast the upcoming soil temperature.
- Keeping a physical notebook for gardening recordsDo you keep a gardening notebook?
- Conquer lens fog: How to keep your camera clear in humid weatherUnlock the secrets to crystal-clear photography even on the steamiest of days! Your lens fog days are over.
- Important tips for analyzing monthly electricity usageWould you like a nice chart showing your monthly electricity usage? I'll show you how to build it.
- Snow during social isolation can be niceWhenever snow falls in April, it always is a bit of a surprise. We tend to think of April as a spring month. The temperatures start warming up. And then boom. Snow. Snow? Really? When there isn’t a global pandemic…
- Start of summer 2018 in ChicagoDING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING The sweet sweet alert DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING The sound of summer starting. DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING Summer is here! When the weather gets…
- Fog and bridgetowersNortheast bridgetower at sunset A fog crawls over the Chicago River. Fog can create amazing scenes. Get close enough to the subject, and it really pops as the background is covered in a blanket of fog. Couple that with a…
- Chicago’s Mother Nature is on TwitterHow do you check the weather? Mobile app? Watch the tv news? How about twitter? I normally ask Siri what the weather will be for the day. While that is the most direct route, it’s not the most fun. To…
- Army of caterpillars and origami butterflies: nature and public art in ChicagoAn army of caterpillars somehow got onto the median of a busy tourist street in Chicago. How was such an unusual sight discovered? Why through origami butterflies, of course! Being freshly married two weeks ago, we have about four hundred…
- How to photograph a window drawing on the bus or trainTime is short. People are watching you. Will you have the guts to draw something fun on a foggy window on the bus or train? These questions faced me this morning as with below zero degree temperatures in Chicago. Commuters…
- 14 Chicago fog photos from ChicagoistA fog crawls over Chicago, photographers slide their cameras out to capture the gray beast. Chicagoist selected 14 photos of today’s fog in Chicago. The second featured image is my photo of the Water Tower pumping station. While riding the…
- Start of Summer 2014 in ChicagoSummer is here! Every year in the summer Chicago raises the bridges to let sailboats swim over to Lake Michigan. This beloved ritual marks the start of summer for many Chicagoans. The second bridge raising in Chicago happened on a…
- The record highest low temperature in ChicagoWaking up to a hot humid summer morning. Walking to work in the dense humidity. The weatherman often reports the record high for the day. But what about the record highest low? I’d like to know what was Chicago’s hottest…
- 28 degrees is not coldI know people on other sub-zero-temperature planets who would love to have 28 degrees. When i tell them it’s 28 degrees, they say, “snaaaaap. it’s warm there!” Which planets? Ones in our galaxy. I talk with the peeps over in…
- Secret behind Chicago’s weather All the weather we get comes from whatever Chicago’s Mother Nature is making for dinner. On hot days, she forgot to turn the oven off. In winter, she eats only ice cream for dinner. Sometimes she spills when rinsing the…
- Just what is temperature anyways?It’s pretty cool that we can measure the hotness of the air. Thank you Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit. The heat index got up to 102 in Chicago yesterday. How do those numbers add up? What if the temperature number always started…
- Airborne, self-preservation, socks, snowballs, foggy (my 5 favorite tweets in August 2009) My top five favorite tweets I made in August 2009 with @spudart: Wanna see something really exciting? Put an Airborne tablet into near-boiling water. August 27 RT @jburno “The sin of self-preservation is keeping us from intimacy in our families…
- WHITEBOARD GAMES: Guess the first 70-degree day in ChicagoPlay a fun game at work on your whiteboard. Have people guess what the first 70-degree day will be in your city. We started this competition about a month ago. Guess what today is? THE FIRST 70 DEGREE DAY IN…
- Chicago just four degrees warmer than the South PoleChicago hit 9 degrees below zero last night. Antarctica in its summer reached negative 13. That’s just four degrees difference! Where are are the penguins! I want some penguins walking around Chicago. Last year in 2008 we got within 14…
- Drawing on Foggy Bus WindowsWe all often sit like robots on the bus. I’m a reading robot. Being a robot can be good sometimes, because we respect each other’s quiet and space. But we don’t have to be totally robotic. This past Wednesday night…
- Most rain in Chicago This was a crazy weekend in Chicago with record rainfall hitting our city. Most rain in one day: “O’Hare International Airport recorded 6.64 inches of rain Saturday — breaking the all-time record of 6.49 inches set in 1987, according to…
- Will the South Pole break negative 100 this year?Image courtesy feuilllu via creative commons The South Pole has reached negative 90 degrees fourteen times so far this year. The lowest being ‚-95 on June 14 and June 23. Can they break negative 100? Here’s the temperatures for June:…
- 61 degrees across the board for ChicagoThe predicted high today: 61. High tomorrow: 61. High day after tomorrow: 61. Looks like the weatherman is getting lazy, But wait! high day after that. 62. WHOA. 62!?
- What will be Chicago’s first day of 70+ degrees in 2008?Take your guess on the day when Chicago will be graced by 70+ degree temperatures. We’ve been having a bitter colder winter that just won’t go away. Let’s think about the day when warm temperatures will be here. My guess…
- It never gets above zero degrees in Antartica The South Pole has not experienced an above zero temperature since January 13, 2002. Can you imagine? Never having temperatures above zero? You’d always have to say “it’s negative thirty” or “it’s thirty below zero.” You’d think they would have…
- Does Chicago ever get colder than the South Pole?As Antartica experiences its summer season, Chicago gets hit with winter. Often it gets super cold in Chicago, and it makes me wonder if we ever get colder temperatures than Antartica. And I’m talking South Pole, Antartica. On January 18,…
- Internet versus the weatherIn one corner we have the new worldwide sensation, the Internet! In the other corner we have the tried and true champion, the Weatherrrrrr! Last night the weather came out on top as it threw a lightning bolt that fried…
