by David Brooks | Dec 17, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
This is my most popular snow-related piece, which first ran in 2016. Today’s very fine snowstorm over the whole Northeast means it’s time for a rerun! I have a fairly long driveway next to an open field, and at least once every winter, snow drifts across...
by David Brooks | Dec 17, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
How many people have died in New Hampshire because of COVID-19? That seems a straightforward question but it’s actually pretty complicated. One possible answer is: 440 more than we have counted. As of late November the answer was about 500, according to the state’s...
by David Brooks | Dec 16, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The national UFO Reporting Center says people in New Hampshire reported more things in the sky that it didn’t know what they were than those in almost any other state. Only Idaho and Montana had more. My thought was: It’s just states with lots of rural...
by David Brooks | Dec 15, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
A solar-powered weather station has been turned on in the North Country that is focused more on the ground than the air, with the goal of helping to spot and prevent wildfires. Like many automated weather facilities the RAWS, or Remote Automated Weather Station, at...
by David Brooks | Dec 15, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
These days we’re all sick of being stuck inside and want to go for a walk. So why not take a stroll to Venus? Or Jupiter? Or may you’d rather walk one-fiftieth of Earth’s annual trip around the sun? Rob Kramer can tell you how. “If you start at the Lowe’s … walk to...
by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The timber rattlesnake is the only poisonous snake living in New Hampshire but there aren’t many of them, partly because we’re at the northern edge of its range and partly because people have destroyed much of its habitat. New Hampshire Fish and Game...
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