Monday, February 25, 2013

A very windy day...

A few days of winter weather are ahead of us. It started with a very windy afternoon and evening.

Wind map created by http://hint.fm/wind/ . Near-term forecast data is used to create an animated windmap with delicately swirling lines. Snapshot from February 25, 2013 at 11:59pm EST.

Update: This system delivered about 18inches of snow to the Texas Panhandle!

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Screech Owl

Sweet surprise... I spotted a couple of eastern screech owls tonight.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Screech_Owl