It’s time for the 2011 hurricane season. 15 named storms are predicted this year, but let’s hope it’s quiet like last year: 2010’s historic season had a total of 19 named storms and ranks as the third most active season on record, but there was little impact on the United States coastline. Twelve of these …
This past weekend was Memorial Day which means the unofficial start of summer! Like most people, we spent it travelling, visiting with family, and being outside enjoying the summer weather.
It’s been almost three years since I last fixed the local radar image in Galleon’s Weather application. Earlier this week TCF user ajayabb pointed out that just like last time, the image was showing N/A again. I tracked down the bug to a change in weather.com’s HTML page and was able to make a simple …
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Coming up on Day Two: the Grand Canyon and a rare spring training night game. What could be better?
Wow. Every state in the United States (except Florida!) had some sort of snow on the ground today … even Hawaii! It was chilly here, but no snow. If only the panhandle had gotten a little dusting, how cool (no pun intended) would that have been?
Did you catch the lunar eclipse this morning? My daughter and I got up at 3am to check out the red moon through the telescope. I think the coolest thing was being able to see stars around the moon through the telescope. Usually it’s so bright it will block out everything else nearby, but this …
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We’re back home after our sixth-annual Labor Day weekend family vacation at Disney World and had a great time as usual. Decent crowds, hidden Mickeys, and those cool FastPass Exchange cards really made the weekend fun.
It rained here the entire holiday weekend … the pool was close to overflowing! I wasn’t complaining though because we seriously needed the rain.
After almost two solid weeks of temperatures in the 40s (and below freezing in some areas, apparently we brought it back with us from Ohio), our normal Florida “winter” weather returned today. Yes, it was finally back in the 70s … I was able to eat lunch outside in the sun and even cook up …
I know it sounds a little harsh, but after spending the past few days in chilly, snowy Ohio for the holidays, we’re glad to be back in Florida. We spent Christmas Eve day doing some last minute shopping and preparations, which included cooking lasagna (in our hotel room) to take to dinner at my aunt’s …