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Retired Winter Weather Expert - Weather Channel, NWS MIC/SOO/Lead Forecaster, Buffalo, NY. Snow is my passion. All opinions are my own.

Roan Mountain, TN
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2 years
Morning has broken and here is the view from atop Mt. Washington where the wind chill is still -102F with sustained winds at 97 mph and a temperature of -42F. #winter @spann @foxweather @MWObs #arcticblast
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3 years
Geek Time...If you ever wanted a great example of #clouds forming when cold air moves over a warmer body of water, check out the Great Lakes this afternoon. Look at all that moisture being pulled out of Lake Superior!! #weather #nature
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I have never seen such a great example of mesoscale vortices down Lake Michigan as this one here. WILD!! #winter @foxweather
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3 months
I can honestly say I have never seen six tornado warnings at the same time in Western New York in my entire career!!! #Beryl
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3 years
When I walked past this swallowtail, the color combination with the yellow and red zinnias blew me away!! #nature
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5 years
I still can't believe this is my backyard. On Roan Mountain TN. #winter #riming @weatherchannel
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3 years
Here's our ride up to Carvers Gap on Roan Mountain TN today. The hike was heavenly, I will follow with some WILD #RimeIce photos. @weatherchannel @nytimesphoto @wjhl @NWSMorristown @ABC @nc_science
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6 years
...and so the snow begins...Logan Pass #Glacier National Park
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2 years
Crazy scenes. At the west end of Lake Erie the docks are standing out of the water while at the east end waves are crashing ashore. #winter #storm
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3 years
1/3: This is "other-worldly!! Rime Ice at Carvers Gap on Roan Mountain in The Appalachians. Elevation 5800 ft. @weatherchannel @nytimesphoto @wjhl @NWSMorristown @ABC @nc_science @spann
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3 years
7 years ago Nov 17-19, One of the most iconic lake-effect #snow images I have ever seen, taken over #Buffalo during the November 2014 storm that dumped several feet of snow south of the city, THAT’S a wall of snow!! #winter
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2 years
Really interesting to look out my back door here in Northeast Tennessee and see the cirrus cloud shield streaming northward from #Ian . #weather @wjhl @NWSMorristown @spann
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5 years
From this morning, one of my best photos of the season. Darn, it stopped snowing now :) @weatherchannel @NWSMorristown @WJHL11 #winter #snowflakes #tnwx
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This video was taken by Mike Niziol in Harford, NY at 5:14PM looking North. It matches well with the SRM couplet at that time on the Tompkins/Cortland county line. Please contact me for media posts. @NWSBinghamton @wxbywilliams @weatherchannel @foxweather
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3 years
The snow has begun here on Roan Mountain Tennessee and the flakes are big and absolutely beautiful. #winter @spann @weatherchannel
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2 years
Some people fish when they retire, some travel, I prefer to spend part of my time sitting on my front porch watching clouds, just like I did as a kid 😉👍 @weatherchannel @spann
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4 years
Thanking everyone tonight for the #prayers you offered up for my 98 yr old mom who, after testing positive for #COVID19 several weeks ago is now negative and no symptoms thru it all. She’s one tough farm girl. #ThankGod
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36 hours of #SNOW . I stiched together a radar loop of the #lakeeffect #snowband off Erie from Thursday evening thru now, Saturday morning. It's literally a firehose!! #winter @spann @foxweather @nwsbuffalo #BuffaloStorm2022
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9 months
Not as pretty as radar but here is the visible satellite imagery of the mesoscale vortices and it is also impressive. #winter
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9 months
It's 0° here in Roan Mountain, Tennessee, and a perfect time to make frozen ice bubbles!! @foxweather @spann @wjhl @wcyb
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6 years
More eye candy of this epic storm. #thundersnow . #WinterStormUlmer #BombCyclone
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7 years
BEAUTIFUL view of #LakeErie ice cover today !! #winter #MODIS
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9 months
This is SURREAL. Great Lakes freighter coming into port in #Duluth MN. Look at the steam fog coming off the lake into the #Arctic air. #winter @spann @foxweather @NWSduluth
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3 years
Zoomed look at today's mesoscale vortex on #LakeMichigan . They often occur under Arctic Highs with cold air/weak winds where local land breezes in the bowl-shape of the southern end of the lake helps shape the vortex. #winter #Science
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I-90 (NYS Thruway) just south of #Buffalo . Most traffic is moving slowly but surely, but then you have idiots who are moving way too fast, in right hand lane yet!! What is SO important that you risk your life and others to drive so fast in a whiteout? @foxweather
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3 years
LOVE the #LakeEffect streamers coming off Lake Superior today. Look at the perpendicular wave clouds and wind parallel clouds!! #winter #miwx #weather101 @weatherchannel @NWSMarquette @NWSduluth
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4 years
I am not sure I have ever seen this much of the Southern Plains under a Winter Storm Warning !! #winter #snow
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8 months
That is one, beautiful, gnarly monster out there in the Pacific right now and it will impact the Western U.S. over the next few days. #weather @foxweather 1/2
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9 months
It does not get cold enough very often here in Tennessee for good dendrites, but its plenty cold right now. I have taken hundreds of photos today, here's just a couple for your viewing pleasure !! 1/2 @foxweather @spann @ReedTimmerAccu @NWSMorristown @JimCantore
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3 years
@JaniceDean That person is such an idiot. Keep doing your job Janice to ensure the safety of Gulf Coast residents.
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5 years
Back to snow crystal photography and I am SOOO EXCITED !! New camera to try out and I think I am getting good result. What do you think?? #winter @WJHL11 @NWSMorristown @weatherchannel @wunderground
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2 years
Mom will be 101 years old Saturday. We took her out today and she wanted to play in the leaves. The smile on her face at the end of this video is priceless 😊👍👍 #centenarian @weatherchannel ⁩ ⁦ @alroker
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4 years
A #wintry scene at 3700 ft in Roan Mountain #TN @weatherchannel
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6 years
#LakeEffect #snow in full color, brought to you by Mother Nature, BEAUTIFUL !!
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9 months
The Lake Erie snow band, very impressive from satellite at sunset!! #weather #winter
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6 months
Mom thought she'd seen everything in her 102 years on earth but she added a total eclipse to that list today. She said it was "pretty neat".
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11 months
The view out my front porch at 3800 feet here in Roan Mountain Tennessee. I think we have reached peak leaf season today. ⁦ @foxweather @wjhl @WCYB_DavidBoyd
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5 years
Here at 3800 ft on Roan Mountain TN we have a beautiful blanket of white this morning. #tnwx #snow
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9 months
When I first started in this business, resolution of weather models was so coarse, they didn't even "see" the Great Lakes and couldn't predict lake-effet snow. Now we have models that explicitly predict mesoscale vortices. THAT'S AMAZING!! 09z HRRR 5hr forecast. #weather
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5 years
My office used to be a computer screen. This is my office now in retirement. I guess it would also make a good screen saver😊 #EnjoyingEverydayLife
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1 year
Now THAT is some impressive system for mid-June across the #GreatLakes !! Temps will be running 15 degrees below normal in some areas. #weather @weatherchannel @foxweather
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6 months
Wow, what a Spring #storm . From space you get some idea of the scale. BTW, the little "eye" that briefly appears just south of Cape Cod is likely the center of the 986mb secondary Sfc Low. #weather
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2 years
View from summit of Apgar Mountain (~6600ft) in Glacier National Park where #Winter #Storm Warnings are in effect on June 14th🥶🥶
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2 years
Amazing view of the progression of the storm surge.
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I've been capturing video from this webcam in Fort Myers all day and I've put it into a Timelapse. Check out the storm surge rushing in! Crazy. #Ian #flwx
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4 years
I have seen paintings of this scene but this morning I got to photograph it and WOW it defines the #Appalachians . I can almost here that beautiful "mountain music" in the background. @weatherchannel @WJHL11 #sunrise #tnwx
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2 years
I don't think ANYONE would have expected this turnaround in the past 3 months. #drought #California
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6 years
Another zoomed in #snow cover comparison across The Sierra last year at this time vs this year. 2018 Statewide SWE 26% of normal to date, this year 125%. #winter #cawx #nvwx
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5 years
This has to be one of the prettiest views of Lake Erie I have ever seen, beautiful colors !! #nywx #ohwx @weatherchannel
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3 years
View of the canal in #Duluth Harbor this morning. Air temp of -18F over unfrozen water produces a perfect environment for "Arctic Sea Smoke", what a wonderful natural laboratory to study meteorology!! #winter @spann @weathernetwork
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10 months
At 102, mom says the secret to her long life is partly #chocolate . She love @Hersheys . My brother wrote to them and they sent my mom a gift box of chocolates for her birthday. @Hersheys is a class act in my book, TY!! 👍👍
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3 years
Absolutely stunning image of an almost completey ice-covered #LakeErie today. #winter #nywx
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9 months
WOW!! Look at that fire hose of moisture coming off Lake Erie. You can clearly see the way the bands converge to make one mega-band at the east end of the lake. LOVE the shadowing on the north wall at sunset!! #winter @NWSBUFFALO
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2 years
7” and counting here at 3800 ft. on Roan Mountain TN. ⁦ @NWSMorristown @spann #winter @foxweather
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6 years
Fascinating cloud features in the cold air Cu field over the Eastern Pacific. #winter #clouds
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2 years
Beautiful even though it’s mid-April. Giant flakes are starting to accumulate at 3800 ft. on Roan Mountain TN!! ⁦ @weatherchannel ⁩ ⁦ @spann @wjhl @NWSMorristown
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3 years
Here's a 2-day history of this monster #winter #storm and it isn't over yet. #snow
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3 years
It’s #snow globe time here in Roan Mountain TN. ⁦ @weatherchannel @spann @wjhl @NWSMorristown
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2 years
#Snow globe time in the Tennessee Appalachians. @spann @weatherchannel ⁩ ⁦ @FoxNews
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2 years
#Buffalo has officially hit 100" of #snow for the season. Last year at this time #Buffalo had 9.3" of #snow for the season. They are nearly 6 ft. above normal right now. Oh, BTW, it's not even January 1st yet. WOW!! @spann @foxweather
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3 years
@JaniceDean That was slick 😳
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6 years
Plows just came through on I-80 at Donner Pass...that's some MAJOR snow clearing !! #winter #snow
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3 years
Snowfall rates have really picked up in the past hour on Roan Mountain TN. Life in the mountains is good !!! #winter @weatherchannel ⁩ ⁦ @NWSMorristown @wjhl @FoxNews
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4 years
What a seiche !! A nearly 7 ft. drop at #Toledo and while #Buffalo has seen a nearly 8 ft. rise. That is an INCREDIBLE 15 ft. net displacement of water on #LakeErie @weatherchannel
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2 years
#Winter has arrived on Roan Mountain TN and it’s #beautiful !! @foxweather @spann @NWSMorristown
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9 months
Wild to see how many varieties of dendritic forms I saw today. Yes, no two snowflakes are EXACTLY alike, very similar but when you get down to the details, each is a unique sculpture of Mother Nature. Enjoy!! #winter #NaturePhotography @spann @foxweather @ReedTimmerAccu
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5 years
Geek Out Time !! Satellite animation of Von Karman vortices today downwind of the island of Jeju. #weather #nature @weatherchannel
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1 year
Visible satellite loop of #HurricaneLee out in the Atlantic as we headed to sunset this evening. VERY impressive to view this hurricane, and they are what I consider overall to be the most amazing storms on the face of the earth. @nytimesworld @ReutersWorld
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I never can get enough of the #radar indicated "bird rings" that form each morning around sunrise as birds leave their roost to feed. They look like explosions in this loop. #birding #mdwx #pawx #dewx #njwx
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4 years
Its been a great day for #snow crystal photos on Roan Mountain, TN. Here's a couple examples, more to come. @weatherchannel @WJHL11 @NWSMorristown #winter #nature #snowflakes @spann @john_kucko
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3 years
It’s a veritable #snow globe up here on Roan Mountain Tennessee right now. @spann @weatherchannel ⁩ ⁦ @NWSMorristown
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3 years
Another view of #Ida at sunrise.
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10 months
I-90 at Ridge Rd. and Milestrip just south of the city of #Buffalo . Traffic moving very slowly right at the north wall of the snowband. @NWSBUFFALO
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4 years
34 degrees with very wet #snow at 3700 ft on Roan Mt #TN this morning. I don’t think I will ever get tired of this scene. #winter
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8 months
Virtually NO ice on the open waters of the Great Lakes in mid-February, unprecedented since data was archived back to 1973. @foxweather @NWSBUFFALO 1/3
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11 months
She beat me again!! Up here in Buffalo visiting my mom, her 102nd birthday is Sunday. Her math skills are still untarnished 😊👍👍 I'll make sure to post some photos from her birthday.
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4 years
Wow!! What contrast and brilliant whites and blues here on Roan Mountain, TN. #nature #sky #weather #winter #snow
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8 months
Don't get many days in the 50s in February in Buffalo, so today I took mom out to her homestead, The Farm, for some "quality time" on the side-by-side. I was concerned to take a 102 year old out like this but her reply when I asked was "SURE!!!" #familyfun
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6 years
Another day of beautiful ocean-effect clouds as that cold air moves over the warmer waters of the Gulf Stream. #winter #snow .
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3 years
Wow!! Look at the northern cutoff for the #snow , impressive. #winter
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11 months
Rotating supercell thunderstorm!! Halloween is so much fun😊 ⁦ @foxweather
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3 years
Beautiful, just BEAUTIFUL!! The Great Lakes, a perfect natural laboratory to study weather. #winter #snow
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9 months
Same process that forms lake-effect snowbands on Great Lakes is producing wind parallel clouds in the GOM today. Concave shape of Mobile Bay creates convergence zone that leads to that "stronger" cloud streamer. Prevailing winds are from the north. @NWSMobile 1/2
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Yes, that is correct, it’s 4 days before summer solstice and Winter Storm Warnings are in effect. The U.S. is an amazing place diverse weather!! @foxweather
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2 years
This is the most #snow #Buffalo has ever had to this point in the season, back to 1884 or 138 years. Their normal for the entire season is 95.4". Even heavy hitters like Marquette are falling behind and the other snowy cities aren't even close. #winter
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Still a few days out, but this is a Classic setup for a significant ice event with warm, Gulf moisture streaming northward over the shallow Arctic air from that 1045 High. Stay tuned... #winter #ice @spann
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Beautiful view of the Northeast #storm system from space this morning. @NWSBoston
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5 years
Lake-effect Eye Candy !! Wow !! #winter @wunderground @weatherchannel
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4 years
I used to go to work this time of day, now I go to play. Today is Monday, kayak day :-) Take heart young people, it took 54 years of work to get here. #retirement
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2 years
Sunrise at North Topsail Beach never disappoints. ⁦ @weatherchannel ⁩ ⁦ @spann
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9 months
I normally do NOT put out 10-day model loops. However, I couldn't resist showing the "pitching machine" throwing one storm after another across the U.S., each one bringing down colder and colder air in their wake. #WinterIsHere
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4 years
I used to dream of the winter night sitting on my recliner in front of a wood fire, wow I made it!! #letitsnow
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7 years
This is truly weather "Eye Candy" #winter #snow #noreasternumberthree
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2 years
5 hours of relentless lake-effect #snow with winds gusting 60+mph in #Buffalo ...and a whole night to go. Praying for everyone!! #blizzard @spann @NWSBUFFALO
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6 years
Happy Winter Solstice !! #winter
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3 years
These twin Pacific storms look awesome from space !! #weather
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1 year
Boy if it was just a few degrees colder, this would be a WHOPPER of a lake-effect snowstorm for #Buffalo . Look at that circulation!! I will show the radar next. #winteriscoming @NWSBUFFALO @foxweather
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4 months
Got mom out yesterday to give her a lesson on how the stabilizing effects of the cooler waters of Lake Erie suppress cloud development at this time of the year. Knowing her son, she just smiled and said I’m enjoying the day, at 102 that is wisdom!! ❤️
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5 years
And for this evening’s show, enjoy mountain magic from Roan Mountain TN !! #clouds @weatherchannel @WJHL11
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About 4” and still coming down here in Murren Switzerland!! #snow #WinterIsComing
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