They say the one constant is change, but something that hasn’t changed in a long while is our annual preoccupation with the common cold. …
Tag Archives: winter
Choosing Slides
Friday was a formidable day. Dervishes of powder whipped across the ground. Bare branches creaked like haunted house doors. The cold air burned. But the sun was out, and so were dozens of kids…
Positives and Negatives
A photo essay.
Return, if you will, to a moment before a foot or more of snow had blanketed New Haven’s already frigid earth…
Shedding Light
The sun will set at 4:25 p.m. in New Haven today.
It’s the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, though it doesn’t have the earliest sunset. That already occurred on December 7, at 4:22 and change. …
Warm and Fuzzy
It isn’t officially winter yet, but it should still feel more like winter than it does. Even Saturday’s snowfall was followed by a melty, muggy day.
Fortunately, local watering holes have proceeded on schedule…
Layer Up
Baby, it’s cold outside.
For you and me, that means new layers—coats over fleeces, scarves under hats, long johns-padded pants. …
Snow Job
How can it be, that New Haven’s December is so warm?
Answers: Climate change. El Niño. Even the “polar vortex,” which was last harsh winter’s bogeyman, is keeping the moment’s Arctic temps confined to the Arctic. …
Storm Chasers
Like the movie, Juno the storm (a.k.a. Colbie) ended up delivering a more wholesome message than observers predicted.
Powdery, wispy and drifting…
Hot and Cold
It’s beginning to feel a lot like winter.
Yesterday we got dusted like a fancy old-fashioned dessert (see above). Today’s forecast is in the 20s and teens, feeling lower thanks to wind gusts up to 40…
Best in Snow
Snow absorbs sound.
That’s one reason the world takes on a pleasing, preternatural quiet during and after snowfall. Sonic waves that would normally find ways into your ear canals never actually make it,…
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