Weather Articles

I always kept my eye out for copies of the 1816 edition. When I occasionally find one, in some antiques shop or sent to me by a reader, I immediately turn to the July and August calendar pages to see whether they contain the famous snow forecasts Thomas supposedly made for the summer of...

Back around the turn of the last century, in the days before the National Weather Service, the so-called goose bone method was a famous weather-forecasting technique.

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Your arm is about ten times longer than the distance between your eyes. That fact, together with a bit of applied trigonometry, can be used to estimate distances between you and any object of approximately known size.

Here are illustrations on tying knots, including bowline, hitch, and overhand knots.

The following list of supplies kept in your emergency car kit will serve you well if an adverse situation arises in your automobile.

Basic Auto Emergency Kit

Keep these items in a bag in your trunk:

Keep the following first aid supplies in the household to treat unexpected injuries.

Get tips on how to survive summer heat. Take a moment to check our heat safety tips and the heat index chart.