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NEW! - 'Star Gazer' host Jack Horkheimer dies - Jack Horkheimer, Public Television's ``Star Gazer,'' died Friday afternoon of a respiratory ailment, according to a spokesman for the Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit Planetarium. Born June 11, 1938, he was 72. Miami Herald
Warm weather, cold beer, hot dogs can bring on headaches - You've stuck your toes in the sand and fired up the grill. The burgers are sizzling. An ice-cold Corona and a panoply of toppings awaits. Sounds like the recipe for a perfect summer afternoon. And the formula for a killer headache, it turns out. MSNBC
J.J. Abrams goes steampunk for movie about world's 1st robot - J.J. Abrams reached out to pick up the rights to Boilerplate, the story of a Victorian Age mechanical man who fought alongside Pancho Villa and Teddy Roosevelt before vanishing at the end of World War I. Follow the link to see the ad that was created for the book. SciFi Wire
Golden Girls star Rue McClanahan dies - Rue McClanahan, the Emmy-winning actress who brought the sexually liberated Southern belle Blanche Devereaux to life on the hit TV series "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 76. WOOD-TV
TV host Art Linkletter dies at 97 - Art Linkletter, who hosted the popular TV shows "People Are Funny" and "House Party" in the 1950s and 1960s, has died. He was 97. His son-in-law Art Hershey says Linkletter died Wednesday at his home in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles. MSNBC


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Bill Steffen Says We Can Look Forward to This!
by D. A. Marshall

Well it's been a bit of a scorcher over the past week or so. WE've had three Ozone Action Days (Air Quality Alert) which means free bus rides for everyone in the city on those days. And this Friday/Saturday... highs in the mid to upper 60s. Then back into the low to mid 80 after the weekend. WOOHOO! Bill Steffen has been getting ton of questions on his blog about what we can expect the Winter to be like. He's done some research and found out what the most likely scenerio is for this winter, based on years when the weather pattern has been almost exactly like this one. You can see what he had to say, down below.

The last time we had a summer as warm as this one was 1955.

People asked if I'd look up to see what the weather was like in the fall and winter of 1955-56: September (+0.9°) and October (+3.7°) were both warmer than average.

It turned cold in November (-2.7°) and the lake-effect snow machine sprang to life. We had 18.5" of snow in Grand Rapids and lakeshore areas had more than that.

December was cool (-1.6°) but Grand Rapids only had 9.4" of snow that month.

January was almost exactly normal for temperatures, but we had only 5.3" of snow.

February was also almost exactly normal for temperature but with 22.9" of snow.

March was nearly 4 degrees colder than average with another 17.5" of snow.

It finally reached 50° on April 1, then 60° on April 2, then on April 3rd, 1956 the temperature climbed into the upper 70s just before the dinner hour... and just before a massive F5 tornado descended from an ominous sky and plowed through Ottawa and Kent Counties leaving 17 dead and 340 injured. The strongest wind anywhere on Earth in 1956 occurred on April 3, 1956 on Van Buren Street in Hudsonville, Michigan. That tornado, the only F5 tornado to occur anywhere in the world in 1956, came the April following that warm summer of '55. It's also interesting to note that we are going to be in a moderate La Nina - similar to the winter/spring of 1955-56 and we had a cold PDO (current in the Pacific that influences weather patterns) in 1955-56.

So that's what Bill's research turned up in terms of what we might expect in terms of the coming winter. Check back on Sunday to see what I'm looking forward to movie wise this Fall and my annual selection of DAVE PICKS... shows worthy of my time and hopefully yours.

Your pal,
Dave



I think Steve Shick and my Uncle will be in line for this film!





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