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Saturday evening's map

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, January 4, 2014

Here's North America's weather pattern at of 8:45 p.m. Saturday evening. This map is from the Wimington, Ohio National Weather Forecasting Service.

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Watch Icon for weather updates and cancellations

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, January 4, 2014

Stay in touch with weather conditions over the next few days. The Icon will provide updates. Also The Icon invites any groups who have cancellations to announced to send the information to: [email protected].

CANCELLATIONS WE'VE ALREADY RECEIVED:

• All Ada school athletic activities including elementary basketball for Sunday have been cancelled.

 

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Weekend forecast calls for more snow and lower temperatures

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, January 3, 2014

• Low-Impact Winter Storm Sunday & Monday for AEP’s East Utilities
• Extreme Cold Wave Monday & Tuesday

AEP has issues a weather advisory, which affects the Icon viewing area. Here is the information provided by AEP. The map above relates to this information.

AEP meteorologists expect another low-impact winter storm will track through AEP’s East Utilities on Sunday followed by bitterly cold temperatures and gusty winds Monday.

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If the weatherman cooperates, Ada school activities start to pick up

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, January 2, 2014

Provided the weatherman cooperates, activities at Ada schools begin to pickup on Friday after a holiday break. Here's events taking place from Jan. 3 to Jan. 10.

Friday – Jan. 3
Winter Guard rehearsal, 5:30-8:30 p.m.
Boys’ basketball at Lima Central Catholic

Saturday – Jan. 4
Elementary boys basketball, high school gym, noon-6 p.m.
Elementary girls basketball, ’86 gym, 1-6 p.m.
Girls’ basketball at Liberty Benton
Boys’ basketball at Upper Scioto Valley

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Th weather outside is frightful

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, January 2, 2014

But the fire is so delightful. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Or so the song goes. Thursday was one of those snows day in Ada. Here's a view of the snowfall from the WONB FM facebook site.

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The weatherman says 2013 was a pretty normal year

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, January 2, 2014

Considering weather conditions, 2013 had the feel of a “normal” year in Bluffton. The monthly totals provided by Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer for the Icon, confirm that.

Precipitation for 2013, at 41.13 inches falls in the not-too-little, not-too-much range, when compared to records back to from 2006.

Annual weather summaries from 2006 to 2013 are in an attachment at the bottom of this story.

Snowfall of 34.7 inches appears to compare to normal snowfall over the past eight years – 2006 being the exception with only 11.9 inches.

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