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Our first step outdoors during the snow storm that hit New York yesterday turned out to be our last when we slipped on snow-covered ice and landed face down on the sidewalk, only to be pelted with snowballs by neighborhood kids, buried in a snowdrift by a passing plow, and finally ridden over by a [...]

Today is Umbrella Day! As New York braces for the second Snowpocalypse of the season, we think affectionately on how much we prefer snow to rain, whether still or windy. When the air is really moving and the cats and dogs are falling, we feel very miserable. The only thing that makes it bearable is [...]

Every February 5, the entire nation bursts into a heated celebration for the men and women who predict our weather: It’s National Weatherperson’s Day! On this date, every weatherperson in the country is allowed to ask the president of the Weatherperson’s Association for one thing (sort of like asking the Don one thing on his [...]

Every year, on February 2nd, we crawl out of the Listicles office to see whether or not it is Groundhog Day, and since it usually is we decide that no matter what the groundhog says we will probably have another six weeks of winter. So far, every February 2 has been Groundhog Day, and each [...]

Normally, by this time of year, when the global warming isn’t quite so pronounced, we’ve already crafted entire armies and cities out of snow, filling vacant lots and parks with entire new communities of snow people. Alas, this year it would appear that our beloved snow visitors are staying close to home, so we haven’t [...]

Summer is clearly over early this year (at least that’s the way it looks in New York these days), and just like we did our annual bathing suit shop a few months back, now we’re thinking about our annual umbrella shop. We’re going to start by consulting mental_floss’s listicle of 10 Weird and Wet Umbrellas, [...]

A few weeks ago we got caught in an amazing storm at the beach, and we watched from the relative safety of a gazebo as clouds rolled in off the water towards us packing torrential rains and some of the most spectacular lightning we’ve ever seen. We were much too mesmerized by the spectacle of [...]

A strange piece of news caught our eye recently, in which USA Today informed us of four newly retired hurricane names. We had no idea this was done; that hurricane names, like athlete’s numbers, were retired after especially memorable performances. We won’t go into the strange specifics of anthropomorphizing massive global waeather systems, but merely [...]

As you may or may not know, record snowfall has hit the Midwest and East Coast of the U.S. over the last two days. Here in New York schools even got a rare snow day, and we’re told children are out in the streets celebrating with snowball fights, igloos, snow angels and the like. Meanwhile, [...]