PAT SHINGLETON PRODUCTIONS

A few flocks of geese are evident in the area as I often hear the honking over our house. This prompts our guard and attack dog to sprint through the house to let them know who's who... Our four pound Yorkie is much smaller than the birds. Geese that fly in a "V" forma...

Our forefathers selected early November as Election Day because the weather in November is moderate - most of the time. In days of old, transportation from rural areas to polling places was compromised by weather. In 1948, weather helped Harry Truman as two inches of r...

During idle time as an ambulance driver in World War I, Lewis Richardson would perform numerical weather experiments. He would catalog sky conditions, integrating numerical calculations into his journal. His sparse observations and calculations by hand didn't produce a...

Atmospheric pressure is the force exerted on the surface from the weight of air above the surface. We wouldn't know this if it weren't for events that took place at the Puy de Dome Observatory in Central France. The atmosphere is a fluid layer of gases, surrounding the...

Fall foliage in New England is called second to none and Southern New England attracts a vast amount of leaf-peepers. This area is composed of three small states: Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.  Rhode Island is the smallest, measuring about 30 miles acros...

We’re getting closer to harvest time in South Louisiana including sugar cane and soy beans.  Farmers in Arkansas and other locales often struggle with a menacing weed that compromises the cotton crop.  In years past the “pig weed” has  dominated the fields and pesticid...

Ampurdan is located in northeast Spain where intense winds blow from the Pyrenees. High pressure forces air through the mountain passes and warms by compression. Similar to California's Santa Ana winds, where wildfires burn because of these seasonal blasts, wind gusts...

I’m in the prediction business and the latest model runs indicate another "shot" of a cold front sliding through the area October 14th and 15th.  Our last prediction occurred on September 22nd and an expected frontal passage that did not materialize. Here’s an interest...

The 2005 Hurricane Season recorded 21 named storms and through 2006 we grabbed a few more names from the Greek alphabet.  Typically, statistics indicate that by November, 75% of the hurricane season is completed. Some of our viewers and readers have reported an increas...

We are now down to 60 days in Hurricane Season 2018. In years past, October was noted for storm development. Hurricane Hilda on October 3, 1964 killed 16 Louisiana residents and after moving inland, tornadoes killed 22 more in LaRose. The October 2, 1915 Hurricane move...