Caledonia, Wisconsin — Gast & Sons power equipment shop at 111 6 Mile Rd., with the setting sun reflecting off a window. Gast & Sons offers sales and service of Gravely and Simplicity tractors and mowers, plus...
Racine, Wisconsin — The heads and shoulders of Joseph and Mary emerge as snow melts around a plastic outdoor nativity set in front of a house on Pierce Boulevard on the eve of Valentine's Day — two weeks after the "Blizzard...
Racine, Wisconsin — Using a snow thrower to cut paths to nearby houses, our neighbor Tim begins to plow through the record snowfall that piled up during the Blizzard of 2011, just one snowstorm in our cold and snowy...
[Monarch]While waiting for Racine to be buried by the Blizzard of 2011, many of us here in southeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois are recalling the great Chicago Blizzard of 1967. That storm — on January 26, 1967 — dumped 23 inches of snow on northeast...
The excitement is palpable in the video above as children await the arrival of visitors in Dienten am Hochkönig, a little mountain village in Austria. Many Americans probably recognize St. Nicholas, whose feast day is December 6. A legendary bringer of gifts on the...
When I woke up this morning to a few new inches of snow, the temperature outside was -4°F, combined with a 23 m.p.h. breeze for a wind chill index of 28 below zero. The news anchor on WBBM 780 informed me that winter had just officially begun one minute ago. When we...
This was the view outside my window at about 9:20 this morning. I think I'm going to send it to Charles Osgood and ask him to use it as the last minute of this week's CBS Sunday Morning. The snow has since stopped, so now we're going...
Our local forecast: This afternoon: Flurries and areas of blowing snow before 3pm, then areas of blowing snow after 3pm. Tonight: Wind chill values between -5 and 5. Sunday night: New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. Monday night: New snow accumulation of...
Every once in a while, you buy a product that turns out to be worth every penny you paid and then some. I was out walking for an hour or so today ahead of tonight's ominous wind chill advisory when it occurred to me that I really love my Patagonia R3 fleece jacket....
Kenosha, Wisconsin — The ramshackle upper flat on Kenosha's small boat harbor where we spent 17 quick years.
Kenosha County, Wisconsin — The Pike River winds through Petrifying Springs Park during a February snowstorm.
Kenosha County, Wisconsin — Amy, getting covered with snow during a snowstorm at Petrifying Springs.
Kenosha County, Wisconsin — Snow-covered bridge over the Pike River at Petrifying Springs.
Kenosha County, Wisconsin — Sledders out on Petrifying Springs Golf Course during a snowstorm.
Kenosha County, Wisconsin — Snow-covered trees in mid-February at Petrifying Springs Park.
Kenosha County, Wisconsin — Snow highlights the branches and twigs of a tree at Petrifying Springs Park.
Kenosha County, Wisconsin — Sledding on Hole 17 of Petrifying Springs Golf Course. American film director, writer, actor, and producer Orson Welles, who directed Citizen Kane (1941), was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1915,...
Kenosha County, Wisconsin — Sledding area on holes 8 and 17 of Petrifying Springs Golf Course.