Famed English poet Christina Rossett wrote about the bleak midwinter in a poem published in the January 1872 issue of Scribner’s Monthly. The poem was under the title “A Christmas Carol” and has since been set to music and is a holiday standard. But the haunting lines of a bleak midwinter, which was also turned into […]
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How cold is it going to be the next few days? Try this bad joke on for size
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – Author John Steinbeck How cold is it gonna feel for the next couple of days? How about colder than a brass toilet seat on the shady side of an iceberg? With all due apologies for that horrendous joke, […]
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Arctic cold front to bring snow showers, below-zero wind chills tonight
The weather outside is gonna be a little more frightful tonight and into Thursday, just two weeks before Christmas. An arctic cold front will move west to east through north central Ohio on Wednesday night and into early Thursday morning with scattered snow showers and possible snow squalls developing along the front. The National Weather […]
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Winter Storm Gerri sending high winds, chilling cold across north central Ohio
“And the iron boats go as the mariners all know with the gales of November remembered.” — Gordon Lightfoot, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” Six giant ore boats anchored and sought refuge Friday night and into Saturday in the harbor between Vermillion and Sandusky as Winter Storm Gerri howled across the Great Lakes — […]
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Winter Storm Gerri takes icy cold aim at north central Ohio
“The cold earth slept below; Above the cold sky shone; And all around, with a chilling sound; From caves of ice and fields of snow; The breath of night like death did flow beneath the sinking moon. ” — From “The Cold Earth Slept Below” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) MANSFIELD — Weather forecasters like […]