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Tuesday, February 26, 2013  Winter Weather Advisories are in effect for much of upstate New York beginning tonight and lasting into Wednesday, and for some northern and eastern counties, Wednesday night.

Friday, July 20, 2012  The Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University says the first half of 2012 was abnormally dry for the Northeast, except for Maine.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012  A federal report shows significant progress in the fight against acid rain,  except in the Adirondacks.

Tuesday, November 01, 2011  The first full month of fall, October had both a summer and winter twinge.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011  Today’s topic will focus on the types of heavy snow events which impact central New York.

Tuesday, March 01, 2011  Digging deeper into the numbers reveal some interesting weather tidbits.

Monday, February 21, 2011  Many of you have an opinion. Tell me yours with a comment at the bottom of this web page.

Wednesday, February 02, 2011  Winter weather advisories are in effect for Central New York. Winter storm warnings have been cancelled.

Saturday, November 27, 2010  Scientists from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD recently compared rainfall between the two active hurricane seasons of 2010 and 2005. Of course, the 2010 season was being watched closely by those cleaning up the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and it seems we may have had some luck there.

Thursday, July 01, 2010  During the month of June 2010, Syracuse Hancock International Airport received 6.57” of rain. That is well above the normal of 3.54”, over 3 inches, in fact.

Tuesday, September 01, 2009  Central New York finally received a seasonable summer stretch during much of the middle of the month of August, especially with respect to those temperamental temperatures.