Winter Weather Awareness Week  2012

Not only is today*   tomorrow Veteran’s Day… It’s the start of Winter Weather Awareness Week in Ohio.  Winter Weather Awareness Week is November 11-17, 2012.

I saw that this week is Winter Weather Awareness Week on Facebook thanks to Dublin, Ohio.  Assuming it is not just Winter Weather Awareness Week in Dublin but throughout  Ohio. Yes I looked.  Different states do Winter Weather Awareness different weeks, New York had Winter Weather Awareness Week in October.  Good thing!  Some states only do a day of Winter Weather Awareness.

Best Wishes for a Warm Winter

I’m hoping for a winter like last winter… no snow and relatively warm.  I saw a wooly bear in the woods a few weeks ago.  His stripe was broad.  I think.  I should have snapped a photo of him.  A little ways up the path I thought about running back to snap a close-up of him.  It was October and with all the leaves I was probably lucky to see him the first time.  Should I see another wooly bear this fall I will get a photo.

Broad stripe on a Wooly Bear means cold, snowy winter?  Or not?

More Columbus Weather:

The Blizzard of ’08

February 2010 Freaky Weather

Things to do after the storm - 2012

Isaac: Columbus Weather - 2012

Rain, rain go away… Frankenstorm

Columbus Weather: Winter Storms

*  I hate weather posts back to back. I mistakenly published this  a day early and my site would not let me unpublish it.

Winter Weather Awareness Week in Central Ohio originally appeared on columbusbestblog on November 10, 2012.

Columbus weather…  I totally missed that The Weather Channel wants to name winter storms.  I do not watch cable TV, regularly. I guess it is more than The Weather Channel wanting  to name winter storms… The Weather Channel is now naming winter storms.

The winter storm names will be alphabetical like hurricane names.  2012 winter storms will mostly be named Greek names … well except a few like Q.    Greek as in Greek tragedy?  Remember the Blizzard of  ’08 in Columbus?  A March storm, wonder what it would be named if they were naming winter storms back then.  Something that started with Z?  Or would The Weather Channel have been back up in the beginning of the alphabet by the winter of  2007 – 2008?

Next Up… Winter Storm Brutus

I read about The Weather Channel naming winter storms on Facebook.  Columbus, Ohio meteorologist Chris Bradley was asking on Facebook yesterday if people thought winter storms should be named.  I missed that the storm that hit friends in CT., NY and elsewhere on the east coast was “Athena.”   Brutus  is the next winter storm according to The Weather Channel. The winter storm that The Weather Channel is naming Brutus will not even hit Columbus.   Brutus is Greek?

I remember reading, hearing “Why aren’t winter storms named?” about the time that Sandy hit the east coast.  Whether I heard it or read “why aren’t winter storms named”  online I can not say.  If there was news of #Athena on Twitter, I missed it.

2012 Hurricane Names, Columbus is not Hurricane Country  usually

Hurricane Ike Aftermath – 2008

Winter Storms Hype

The National Weather Service names hurricanes.  I understand they have instructed weather forecasters NOT to use The Weather Channels names to identify winter storms. You won’t hear Jym Gahnal, Chris Bradley etc. using The Weather Channels names on Columbus TV? I read NBC is related to The Weather Channel.  They are second cousins once removed to NBCI4.com or something like that.

Is naming winter storms just TV station and social media hype or is it a good idea? We’ll know in the future. I know people in central Ohio will pay attention to the storm named Brutus no matter where that winter storm hits.  It’s in their nature to react to the word “Brutus.”  Maybe I will watch to see if I see #Brutus on Twitter.

More Columbus Weather:

Rain, rain go away… Frankenstorm

Isaac: Columbus Weather - 2012

Things to do after the storm - 2012

Columbus Weather: Winter Storms originally appeared on columbusbestblog on November 9, 2012.

Yesterday was quite a storm in central Ohio.

On the news they said 82 mile an hour winds were recorded in Dublin.  I was in Delaware County in the Lewis Center area at New England Homes when the storm hit just after 5:00. We ran around the front yard and grabbed signs and flags about 4:50.  Too bad we did not check car windows being up. Live and learn!

“The Parade ends tomorrow so don’t miss your chance to experience the latest and greatest in design, décor and landscaping trends.  You’ll come away with thousands of ideas for every room in your home, helping you create your own American Dream.”

This is the “Food Truck Fest” at the BIA Parade of Homes.  Some of central Ohio’s best food trucks will be serving their wares at the Parade of Homes today and Sunday.

Stop by New England Homes (5191 Columbus Pike (Route 23) Lewis Center, Ohio 43035  for discount coupons for the BIA Parade of Homes at the Meadows at Lewis Center.  New England Homes is open from 1:00 to 5:00, Saturday and Sunday.

There are other things going on in Columbus too.  Picnic with the Pops is at Columbus Commons.

A great place to look for things to do in central Ohio and specifics is always ExperienceColumbus.com

Things to do the weekend after “The Storm” originally appeared on columbusbestblog on June 30, 2012.

Hurricane Season 2012

The orginal Columbus Best Blog was started during ‘Hurricane Katrina’ in 2005.  The site is still up.  Sometimes I play with it a bit.  The original Columbus Best Blog’s url is http://www.realtown.com/Maureen/blog/archive   I don’t believe there is any mention of Hurrican Katrina on it back in August 2005. I was watching in horror on TV and online what was going on in the Gulf of Mexico.  I started blogging in part to not look at Hurricane Katrina.

This site is not named Columbus Best Blog, this site is called ColumbusBestBlog.com I changed the name of the RealTown site to Discover Columbus when I stole the name when this site was launched.

2012 Hurricane Names

Alberto
Beryl
Chris
Debby
Ernesto
Florence
Gordon
Helene
Isaac
Joyce
Kirk
Leslie
Michael
Nadine
Oscar
Patty
Rafael
Sandy
Tony
Valerie
William

The 2012 Hurricane names are the same as 2006 names?  Unless there was a devastating 2006 storm and then that name would be retired? I heard that somewhere.  There will never be another Katrina.

Columbus is not affected by hurricanes… well usually.  Remember Hurricane Ike coming through in September 2008?  Our storm with 75 mile an hour winds?   Worthington Schools Open Again  after Hurricane Ike came through on a Sunday afternoon.  In Columbus Hurricane Ike knocked out electricity, knocked down trees.  Ike was all wind when it hit central Ohio.

The stormy sky photo is a 2012 photo.

2012 Hurricane Names… Columbus is not Hurricane Country… originally appeared on columbusbestblog on May 16, 2012.

This is “Spring Severe Weather Awareness Week” in Ohio.

The photo is from ‘The Abigail’  at last September’s City Hop. The Abigail is rental living in downtown Columbus, near CCAD, Franklin University, etc.

Did you go to the basement a week ago Sunday? People without basements need an “Area of Refuge.”

We had no winter weather in 2012… or very little.  We  have had crazy warm weather this spring.

Freeze warning tonight…  risky weather for plants.

Ohio Spring Severe Weather Awareness Week originally appeared on columbusbestblog on March 26, 2012.