Not necessarily weather related but comes with the cooler season…

The flu season is closing in rather quickly, here are some links to websites with some information and updates on this years flu season:

Flu Watch (current flu activity from NFSN)

Top 10 Questions About the Flu (WebMD)

Centers for Disease Control (Weekly Report: Influenza Summary Update)

How to fight a flu (EHow)

Great flu information (medicare.gov)

Flu shot location information (about.com)

Its been awhile since we’ve seen high temperatures below 90 for more than a day. But its coming.

Image: Accuweather.com

Its official, Autumn arrives at 9pm tonight!

More Autumn facts:
“Did you ever wonder why leaves change colors in the fall?

A pigment called chlorophyll helps turn water, air and light energy into food for plants. When a plant contains a lot of chlorophyll, it appears green. There are also other pigments present, such as purple, red and yellow, but these colors are masked by the green chlorophyll. During the fall, the production of chlorophyll decreases due to the change in temperature. This is when the other pigments appear, and the leaves display brilliant colors. But this also means that the leaves are reaching the end of their life cycle.

The Autumnal Equinox
The point in late September when the sun appears to cross the celestial equator from north to south marks the beginning of autumn. On this date, the night becomes longer than the day for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere.

Autumn vs. Fall
The word autumn refers to the autumnal equinox that marks the start of the season, but what about fall? An online search indicates people have several theories about where the use of the word fall comes from. Some say its simply because of falling leaves. Others say its a term that started in the South where the word autumn seemed to invoke a colorful season that didnt occur there. It seems that the prevalence of one term over the other follows geography.”

(sources: weather.com, USC)