Joe Schumacher

You probably saw sleet or graupel. Definitely not hail....

There was a privacy sleeve in the voting booth. It wasn't needed as the scanner was right behind me. I literally just turned around and fed the ballot into the scanner....

Almost! Seasonal predictions are much more difficult than short-term (weather) and long-term (climate) predictions. It is not so much that we have no clue, but that the clues we have don't help very...

I recently hosted a meeting for about a dozen colleagues from around the country. Almost every one of them mentioned being skeeved out by NYC bedbugs. A couple of them said they closely inspected th...

The averageness....

The Weather Service confirms that two tornadoes struck NYC on Thursday. One ran through Park Slope and the other through Flushing and Bayside. In addition there was straight-line wind damage in Fores...

Typing with one hand is getting old! I forgot to clean this one up today. With any luck, and a bit of physical therapy, I should soon be able to type with my left hand again....

Fixed. Thanks for catching that. Damned one-handed typing....

I was thinking of the giant kernel corn that is used in posole. Is that a particular type of corn, or does the lye cause the kernels to enlarge?...

There's a reason why people say "eat s**t and die". Fresh feces contain all sorts of live pathogens. Fertilizer does not. That's why sewage gets treated before it is dumped back into the environmen...

It's producing food but what kind of corn is it? Sweet? Pop? Field? Hominy?...

There are plenty more holes like this in the low 100s uptown. Here's a picture I took of one from 2008....

It's a tie! The temperature in Central Park reached 97 degrees this afternoon. That ties the record set in 1999....

One of my favorites!...

Good question!...