Map Monday, Your Chances for a White Christmas

Strictly speaking a white Christmas is nothing more than a covering of fallen flakes of frozen water on the ground.  According to AccuWeather’s analysis of the past 30 years only two large US cities (>250,000 city population) have a better than 50% chance of a white Christmas.  Those two cities… Read more“Map Monday, Your Chances for a White Christmas”

Map Monday, Where’s the closest solar eclipse in the next 25 years?

Eclipses have always fascinated me.  My first recollection of a solar eclipse doesn’t come from witnessing one, but rather from a movie.  As a child Saturdays meant watching cartoons in the morning then running around outside until dinner, except when it rained.  On rainy days my siblings and I would… Read more“Map Monday, Where’s the closest solar eclipse in the next 25 years?”