Tag Archives: Russia

The folks who organize the New England Pond Hockey Classic (NEPHC) on Lake Winnipesaukee are hopeful they’ll have solid ice next month, like they did last year when the Classic drew 150 teams (that’s 150 teams, not players) to New Hampshire’s largest lake and the summertime resort town of Meredith, which is on the northern shore of the lake where I spent my summers as a youngster. Although it’s a far cry from being iced over just yet (read: no ice), Lake Winnipesaukee’s water temperature is a bone-chilling 37 degrees and the air temperature is 30 degrees — ice is surely on its way.

An interesting fact about powered paragliding in Russia: It’s illegal. The only legal flying performed in Russia is done by commercial and military pilots. Fortunately Russian aviation authorities tend to ignore the small PPG community. It was comforting knowledge as I found myself 2,500 feet over Moscow — one of the few people, and certainly one of the very few Americans to experience such a joy.

We have liftoff! The first rocket launch of 2011 occurred Thursday at 12:29 GMT (7:29 a.m. EST) in Kazakhstan, but another launch will occur this afternoon (1:08 p.m. PST) right here in the U.S. on the West Coast. The Delta IV Heavy rocket is expected to blast off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in [...]

A Russian political scientist believes the U.S. may be using a climate-change weapon (HAARP) to alter temperatures in Russia and other Central Asian countries. First off, that’s just ridiculous; the only thing in control of the weather is Mother Nature. I’ll agree temperatures this summer in Russia, specifically in the Moscow area, have been extremely [...]

What do air conditioners, ice cream cones, short shorts, bottles of water, sun block, sprinklers, flip-flops, garden hoses and — of course — sunglasses have in common? Summer for sure, but also they are all high-use items in a heat wave. In other words, if you’re selling those items and a heat wave befalls your [...]

I was listening to the radio a few days ago and the news anchor was talking about rolling blackouts due to the excessive heat in many areas of the country. “Here we go again,” I thought. After all, it’s the first week in August and we’ve seen this before. Seems California and the East Coast [...]

The heat wave in Russia has continued for so long that the world has moved on to other things. However, new today come these comments from Russian officials: “Nothing similar has been observed in the millennium history of the Russian state, which dates back to the acceptance of Christianity by ancient Russia in the late [...]

Pink snow and tornadoes, those are the reports coming in from Russia today. The Moscow suburb of Krasnozavodsk experienced a rare winter tornado, as reported by MosNews.com. (I find it odd that there is no snow on the ground and the grass so green. Snow has been plaguing Moscow for the past few weeks/months. Could [...]

Cold weather over North America often has its source region over the plateaus of Siberia in central Russia. Long-range forecasters look not just to Canada, but to Siberia for answers to "Just how cold will this winter be?" Under strong high pressure and sitting atop snow and ice, the cold air pools over the Siberian [...]