Winter 2015

For tomorrow, Friday the 20th, we already have a few schools reporting delayed openings due to the cold, do you think that schools should actually close for the cold?

Have you ever wondered exactly what goes on in school when there's a snow day? While the students may be getting a day off, the faculty and staff aren't necessarily sitting at home and enjoying hot cocoa by a fire. So what do they do exactly? Well, the Southern News Network at Southern Regional High School gives us a little insight. Check it out:

Last weekend I was out shopping and came across this cute Valentine's Day gift set. It included a little plush balloon, a teddy bear, and a box of chocolates. Well, what seemed like a box of chocolates at least.

Ok, this is cool! Let's continue today's theme of unusual ways to get through the snow. First, we had the cat who claws his way through a 4 foot high blockade, and now we have this - a Canadian train that couldn't care less about snow that's built up on the tracks. The locomotive literally plows through the snow, blasting a massive cloud of frozen precipitation in its path. It's a pretty amazing s

There are lots of ways to dig out of a snowed in house; shovels, snow blowers, heck I even used a plastic WOBM frisbee to dig my car out of the snow earlier this week because I'd forgotten my snow brush. But none compare to this cat who is determined to get out of the house, even when faced with a 4 foot high wall of snow. Watch the tenacious tabby go to work for yourself:

While this week's early storm didn't turn into the thumping that New England ended up with, it was still more than enough to cause closings, cancellations, and a bunch of headaches. Unfortunately, we could be starting next week in similar fashion.

The National Weather Service has been assigning names to major hurricanes for over 60 years. On the heels of this week's snow, that some referred to as "Juno", you might think that they've started to apply the same practice to winter storms as well. But that's not the case.

As "The Great Blizzard of 2015" turned into "The Moderate Snow Storm of 2015", many voices began to enter the debate about forecasting, information dissemination, and alleged "hype". I had a lot of things I wanted to say, and thought that I would take a few moments to say some of those things.

As the first storm of 2015 dumped half a foot of snow or more in most areas of Ocean County, ironically enough most of us are feeling relief. Relief that it wasn't that two feet or more that it could have been. But wet roads throughout the area are still concerns for travel throughout the county.

As I'm writing this at about 5pm, Ocean County's roads are a slushy mess. While the worst of the storm is yet to come, travel is already becoming dangerous.