by Doug Thompson | Jan 19, 2016 | Musings
The thermometer at 0500 Tuesday (5:00 a.m.) said six degrees and the projection by the National Weather Service today says Floyd County can expect a high of about 22 degrees. Yes, winter has arrived in the Blue Ridge with what the talking heads call “a brutal...
by Doug Thompson | Mar 7, 2014 | Musings
The sun set over the snowy landscape of Floyd County Friday evening and Saturday is expected to dawn with new promises of warmer weather and approaching springlike temperatures. With temperatures Saturday expected into the upper 50s and then flirting with higher 60s...
by Doug Thompson | Mar 3, 2014 | Musings
In what is the norm this winter, the “winter storm” forecast with such ferocity for a while turned into the event that wasn’t. Even the usually-accurate Kevin Myatt of The Roanoke Times missed the call, predicting snow accumulations that never fell,...
by Doug Thompson | Mar 2, 2014 | Musings
Can’t speak for everyone else out there but the general reaction around here when a new weather forecast erupts is: “Now what?” Now the National Weather Service and the doomsday weather forecasters are claiming another “winter storm” is...
by Doug Thompson | Feb 14, 2014 | Musings
The last of the “big one” of 2014 moved out of the area shortly before dark Thursday and left behind snow of more than 20 inches, snowdrifts ranging up to five and six feet and a region paralyzed by a massive winter storm that closed schools, banks,...
