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The weather: now there’s an original topic worth blogging about, eh what? But, just to be clear, for those of you in other parts of the world where this may not be the case, it is colder than the balls on a brass monkey (as my step-father was fond of saying) here in much of much of the Widwest and Northeast U.S., I can assure you from first-hand experience. Here in NYC, it’s in the 20s, going on the second week of consistently sub-freezing temperatures. Meanwhile, I’ve been traveling a bit, including Chicago and Detroit, and it’s even colder there. In Detroit yesterday, it reached a high of 1 degree Fahrenheit (for you Euros, that’s -17.2 centigrade).

I’m looking forward to my trip next week to the West Coast.

Here’s another thinnly related observation about the Net: photos online are hard to research and poorly represented. I was listening to NPR and heard them say something about the Atlantic being frozen over along the East Coast. Cool. I wanna see what that looks like. I don’t have cable TV, so I can’t switch on CNN or The Weather Channel and hope to see such photos (besides, I’m working and the TV is in the other room), so I hit both of those media company’s web sites hoping to find a photo. Weather.com is kind of hopeless, really. There are virtually no photos to speak of that I can see, just text wire stories as far as weather news goes, as far as I can see. That’s quite lame, considering that the weather regularly makes some pretty spectacular visual images.

I found the photo above on the Boston Globe’s site, but it’s not actually affiliated with any story, it’s just on the homepage with a caption, so presumably it won’t be archived if you’re checking this later than today. (In fact, I forgot to note the caption, and now, a day later as I edit this, the photo’s gone. It was something about these being commuter ferrys on some river, though I don’t know Boston enough to tell you what river.) Meanwhile, NY1 reports on similar freezing conditions on the Hudson. I still haven’t seen photos of the frozen ocean, though, as the two photos I’ve found both of rivers. If you know where I can find a photo of the frozen Atlantic, please let me know.

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