Are you male between the ages of 20 to 29 who like to fish in July? If so, you lead the percentages of people most likely to be struck by lightning. Golf gets a bad rap for lightning fatalities for obvious reasons as we saw in the movie Caddyshack, but the statistics suggest fishing is […]
It happened in 1816, and it wasn’t the only snow storm in Maine that June. The cold summer of 1816 has become known as the “The Year Without A Summer”. Snow or frost occurred in every New England state during every month of the summer. The morning of July 4th was a frosty one, and […]
Hurricane season 2014, a dud? Not so fast. Perhaps you’ve seen the hurricane forecast released by NOAA two weeks ago suggesting a slightly below normal 2014 Atlantic season. We can thank our friend in the Eastern Pacific, a developing El Nino for that projection. NOAA projects 8 to 13 named storms. 3 to 6 of […]
