Since cool weather in the spring is a little annoying, this post on the Iowa Environmental Mesonet page got me thinking. How common are days in the 40s after the first part of April is over? More common than I expected, to be honest. It turns out that, across the I-70 corridor spanning central Ohio, […]
Ohio has experienced two tornado episodes this year, and it’s only mid-March. I believe all the confirmed tornadoes were logged on the National Weather Service’s Damage Assessment Toolkit, which shows the state had 10 confirmed tornadoes up through March 13. All but one of those happened on Feb. 28. However, the severe storms the afternoon
Spring weather is here… not that we had much of a winter. Columbus hit 70 degrees for the first time this season on Monday, a little ahead of the average date of March 9 (based on the 1991-2020 climate normals). Last year, we already reached 70 degrees in the second week of February. The first
March is here, which means climatological winter is over. This past winter—December through February—was the fifth-warmest on record in Columbus, Ohio. The average temperature was 38.0 degrees, pushing last winter (37.7 degrees) down to 6th place. The only cold stretch was a weeklong arctic blast in the middle of January. Otherwise, temperatures were above normal
My team generates mostly still images to accompany weather content on the Spectrum News app, and that includes tropical updates such as this one. The problem we ran into was that the animated icon would render at random points in its rotation, rather than the straight up-and-down position. Changing or removing the rotation effect It
As I alluded to in a previous blog post, my wife and I often discuss all things career/professional life. On a recent walk, we talked a bit about white collar jobs that focus on output vs. focus on knowledge. Some background: a few months ago, my wife changed careers from doing marketing work with the
A day late again this week thanks to vacation-related schedule shifts. I have to highlight a podcast I just discovered (it’s in my list below) called SmartLess. It’s hosted by Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett. The premise is that one of them invites a guest, who is a mystery to the other two
I’m a day late but not a dollar short this week. Ideally, I’d write these on Fridays, which are my Saturdays, but I’ve been keeping myself occupied with more practical things those days. I can’t imagine that’ll change in the more-time direction anytime soon since we have our move to Columbus coming in early July.
My wife and I, like many, deal with occasional bouts of imposter syndrome. It’s something we talk about not infrequently, and it recently led to a short discussion on how movement through one’s career can evolve from getting paid for output to getting paid for knowledge. I foresee a blog posted devoted to that soon,
