Skywatch Almanac Weather Blog

With December's experimentation in winter now over, there can be little doubt that this is winter's stronghold. The time-worn adage "as the days lengthen, the cold strengthens" gets its inspiration from this month, for daylight increases nearly 50 minutes, but average temperatures drop to their lowest levels ...

The longest nights of the year welcome the return of Orion, rising earlier each evening, and dominating the eastern sky, often identified by his line of three “belt” stars. Extending this line to the upper right leads to the red star Aldebaran, the eye of Taurus, the ...

In winter's deepest dark, we carry on the traditions of our ancient ancestors, kindling the hopes of longer days with the festive lights of the season. Their belief that the sun needed some help seems fitting in December, on average the cloudiest month of the year. ...

November seems awkward in some ways.  Any spell of Indian Summer is cut short, no longer at home among the barren trees, the dying grass, and the increasingly frosty mornings.  And yet the first attempts at winter are frequently messy, the marks of inexperience.  Even the sky seems ...

Every cliché ever penned about autumn can be found in October, from foliage to frost, from Indian Summer to winter, all against the backdrop of harvesting and settling in for the longer, colder nights. Perhaps most noticeable is the change in light. Granted, the days get ...

September is a classic transition month, not just for weather, but the shift from summer to fall schedules, the darker mornings and evenings, the foliage, the garden harvest, all play roles in signaling us of the changes than turn most everyone’s world around the other way. Longer ...

Although the days are now noticeably shorter, it is encouraging that August is warmer than July, 4 out of 10 years.  The combination of accumulating heat in the ground and the ocean forces the storm track to its most northerly point of the year, permitting lazy weather patterns ...