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Te Ao Nui
The non-graduate-student members of the department are gradually starting to drift back in from their winter holidays (the university shuts down for a month, but most grad students take about a week off, if that) to a slightly-more-snowy-but-not-really Massachusetts. Our … Continue reading
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Reverse Psychology And Weather Systems
As far as I can tell from the Stuff and NZ Herald websites, it’s been so wet in New Zealand that you should all be thinking of ark-building. Sounds like business as usual for a New Zealand summer, then. Massachusetts, … Continue reading
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Recovery
We got power back last Tuesday evening, just as I was eating a cold dinner by candlelight (the combination of the noises I made when the power returned and the sudden appearance of light everywhere sent the cat under the … Continue reading
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Powerless
Last winter was a record-setter for the northeastern United States – winter snowfall records were broken just about everywhere – so when the forecast indicated we’d be getting six to ten inches of snow on Saturday evening, even though it … Continue reading
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Fall
It’s officially fall autumn dammit autumn here in New England, now the autumn equinox has been and gone. I was interested to discover the other day that I am not the only one who thinks the American season-marking system is a … Continue reading
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After The Storm
Irene turned out to be something of a bust for large parts of the Pioneer Valley, and especially for us – we woke up last Sunday morning to heavy rain and occasionally gusty wind, but that was it. By the … Continue reading
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Irene
I feel like I talk about the weather a lot on this blog, but then again, the weather in Western Massachusetts has been doing some pretty strange things this year. You may recall that we’ve had record snowstorms, tornadoes, a … Continue reading
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Not In Kansas
It’s been summer-hot and dry here this last week, the sort of weather that never lasted for more than two or three days at a time back home, and it was the same yesterday morning, twenty degrees by the time … Continue reading
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A small insight
Remember how last week I was excited about gardening? This is the view out my kitchen window this afternoon: And this is the official first day of spring and all. On the other hand, I do have tomato and aubergine … Continue reading
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Spring – nearly
This was going to be a post about my fun experiences with US domestic air travel security (short version: I got body-scanned, I survived, a little more warning would be nice next time) but various things over the past week … Continue reading
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