Love when it's 2 degrees and I need to shovel and I discover that my heavier duty gloves are nowhere to be found. The other day, I couldn't find (and still haven't found) my car snow brush. No idea where either of them could have possibly disappeared.

Can't wait to shovel

Snow time. 🌨️🌨️🌨️

Our daughter enjoys the cartoon Kiff, and I definitely do not mind watching with her. The writing is pretty funny, they sneak in clever stuff.

🥶 Welcome to Decem-brrrrr. It's felt chillier than usual lately, and the numbers bear that out. #Columbus #OHwx

Well, I guess if I can't fall back asleep, I might as well finish reading my library book as a dog snoozes on my lap.

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15 years ago today, I very briefly appeared on GMA during a story about cold weather. 😆

Whoever invented the idea of "being in bed" really nailed it.

Hi, moon. Hi, Jupiter.

@akrherz.bsky.social Do you have a version of this application for COOP sites, by chance? mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/nws/climap.php

Love when I check the "ship in an Amazon box" and it doesn't and my wife goes and gets the package that's for her.

TIL that the cursive capital Q is no longer written like the number 2, and hasn't in nearly 30 years.

4" at our house. Wonder how long it'll take for a plow to get here. We had a snow last year that they didn't come for a few days... Had to notify the city after seeing residential cul-de-sacs were completely clear. Our street definitely was forgotten/missed.

So... is "wear PJs inside out and throw an ice cube in the toilet if you want a snow day" an Ohio thing or something? We had never heard of such a thing until today. Also, 2-4" should not result in a serious discussion of even the *possibility* of a snow day. Weenies. 🙄

🔥Let's check in and see how much December temperatures have changed (trend) over the last 75 years. 🔥

Wife and 8yo daughter have really gotten into their lore that Smokey Bear is actually a pyro who starts wildfires.

Stunning lenticular #cloud over Mt. Washington #NHwx today!

🏈 Today is the 75th anniversary of the "Snow Bowl," the #Michigan - #OhioState football game that had such awful weather that the teams punted a combined 45 times. Gametime temperatures were in the teens and 7.5" of snow fell that day. buckeyeweatherbuzz.substack.com/i/179859913/... #OHwx

Scientists with NOAA and NASA have ranked this year’s ozone hole over the Antarctic as the fifth smallest since 1992 — the year that the Montreal Protocol, a landmark international agreement to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals began to take effect. noaa.gov/news-release...

Frosty Frosty. And everything else, too. #OHwx

My moon conspiracy theory is that every astronaut who sees the Earth from space immediately says “That’s a spicy meatball!” and NASA is covering it up.

Our Breville toaster oven just bit the dust... after only five years! We use it a lot, but holy cow it should last longer than that.

The people behind the Walmart "WhoKnewVille" Christmas marketing campaign must have skipped this page of the story

science!

When I was working on today's weather newsletter, I was struck by how today's record low of -3 is so starkly different than yesterday's and tomorrow's (10 and 11, respectively). And then I noticed that year, 1880, had several *more* record cold days at this time — five out of six, in fact! (1/2)

The sun just set in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, for the season (71.29°N). It will rise again in 66 days (January 23rd). Good night. 🥱 @alaskawx.bsky.social

Locally heavy rain southwest of Dayton... 😏

Expect this list to grow: Three of the top 5 deadliest heat waves in world history have been in Europe in the past five years. "Mitigating further global warming can reduce heat mortality, but mass mortality events remain plausible at near-future temperatures despite current adaptations to heat."

Local news outlet had this as the forecast for today. It is not slushy, and it certainly has not looked like it was going to be slushy for some time. If you're going to have weather, have a meteorologist.

November 17-19, 2014: A massive lake effect snow event impacted Buffalo, New York. Over the course of 3 days, bands from Lake Erie produced snowfall rates up to 3-6" per hour. Totals in many areas peaked at over five feet. Tragically, thirteen people were killed.

I really wonder if our waste company actually processes recycling. One neighbor always puts garbage in his recycling bin (and it's obvious), and another neighbor put a plant in their bin this week.

Some of the country's highest home insurance prices are in the central U.S., a region generally considered to be protected from climate-driven disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes.

Did the last mow of the season this morning. Glad I don't have to mess around with gas or oil.

What was the weather like on your birthday? Now you can find out! During the shutdown, I forced myself to stay agile in data science tech, like AWS, Google, and Open AI. I made a notebook that gets weather for the day/location of your birth, using multiple NOAA sources. github.com/jjrennie/bir...

Some of the country's highest home insurance prices are in the central U.S., a region generally considered to be protected from climate-driven disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes. n.pr/49PWIKc

Last night, a severe geomagnetic storm painted magnificent colors of the northern lights across a starry canvas over North America.

With the aurora borealis sweeping across the night skies this week, let’s demystify this cosmic phenomena and get to the bottom of how and why this occurs! 🌌 Did you spot the colorful aurora? Let us know in the comments what you saw!

Holy cow, my sister just sent me this photo. Northwest Illinois.

This cold outbreak was also impressive in how far south it pushed, even to #Miami, FL. The Miami International Airport #KMIA set its first record low (49°F) in more than a decade! Between the last two record lows (11/2/14 to 11/11/25), there have been *97 new record highs* set at the airport. #FLwx

November 11th, 1940: An Armistice Day storm raged across the Great Lakes Region and the Upper Midwest. A blizzard left 49 dead in Minnesota, and gales on Lake Michigan caused shipwrecks, resulting in another 59 deaths. Up to 17" of snow fell in Iowa.

In addition to the snow, it was a cold day in #Columbus. 🥶 #OHwx

We just finished off the gallon of ice cream from our kid's bday party a few weeks back. Wife: "Well, now we have a new puke bucket!"

Still needs some work, but I'm mostly there getting Google Sheets to import the WPC list of forecast near/new records and assigning the lat/lon to the station codes to export as a CSV. I'll confess that I've used ChatGPT to work through the vibe coding.

Here's an immediate candidate last year from Buffalo mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.ph...

Hey @akrherz.bsky.social, any previous instances of waterspouts mentioned in the same product as snow? I swear I've seen it, but I could be wrong.

Most of the snowfall reports in the #Columbus area were 1–2". I had 2", but only on the grass and elevated surfaces. Streets were just wet. #OHwx