While it is, or was, regionally known in some circles for decades, social media is just now shedding light on an old-timers trick to predicting the coming winter season.
A weather system that is dumping heavy wet snow on some states in the western part of the U.S. will arrive in Illinois by this weekend, according to the Weather Channel.
Autumn arrived less than a week ago but things are already looking a little more like winter at Mission Ridge Ski & Board Resort.
A system of wet weather moving through the region brought the Ridge its first snowfall of the season this week.
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Some times people will come up to me and say, “That’s a true Washingtonian right there! Being able to handle cold weather wearing shorts!” Actually, I’m a warm climate beach boy from SoCal.
Right now I am desperately missing riding my bike on the Apple Capital Recreation Loop Trail, or as us 509 locals call it The Loop. It is a bicycle and pedestrian trail in Wenatchee, WA. It follows 10 miles of the west and east shores of the Columbia River.