Spring, Summer, Winter and Fall

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Seasons of the year can give you some variety in weather. I like living in a place where each season has its time. Here in Kentucky, sometimes a bit of one season can sneak into a different season. Actually, it’s a pretty good chance that will happen, especially in the spring and fall. We can think we’ve left winter behind …

Weather Matters in Stories Too

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Winter is on the way. The weathermen have said that four letter word – snow. They warn that we might see some snowflakes tomorrow. On Halloween. But whether the snowflakes come or not, the frost and freeze is on the way. So far we’ve escaped a killing frost. My flowers are still blooming. I should go out in the rain …

A February Spring Day

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The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within. ~William Cullen Bryant Sometimes Mother Nature gives us a wintertime gift. We got such a gift today here in Kentucky with plentiful sunshine and the temperature zooming up to 68 degrees. Let me repeat that! Sixty-eight degrees on February 3rd. What makes it even more …

Weather Matters

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We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter. (Bat Masterson) We have had a run of multiple days without the temperature getting up to 32 degrees Fahrenheit. We stayed in the single digits or below zero at nights, and some days didn’t warm up to twenty. …

Miss Sally’s Old-Fashioned Ways of Predicting the Weather

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September 23, 1964 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Holly County. We were at Miss Sally’s house on Sunday. You remember her, don’t you? She was the one who took those chickens I won and then let me visit them. She lives out in the country close to Dad’s church. Everybody loves Miss Sally. And everybody listens when she talks. Even …