Tag: weather

March 2, 2021

This winter’s weather has tapped out city’s snow and ice funding

By Isabela Gladston, contributor

About a half-dozen snows — plus some sleet and ice — this winter have maxed out Harrisonburg’s quarter-million-dollar budget for winter weather, including for snow plowing and road salt.

Hirschmann seeks a second term as an independent — and often dissenting — voice on council

By Randi B. Hagi, Assistant Editor

George Hirschmann, the city council member running for re-election as an independent, cast one of the two dissenting votes when the council narrowly approved the high school’s construction in December. And while he said he’d rather see the city build an annex than a separate new high school, it’s not that he’s against investing tax dollars in the community.

As weather forecasts improve, public perceptions still skewed by occasional whiffs.

By Jeremiah Knupp, Senior Contributor

“Sometimes the forecast is a big bust, like the horrible snow we got in December,” Urbanowicz recalled. “There was a 15-inch difference in the snow totals within forty miles. That’s the humbling part of being a meteorologist. You’re still trying to predict the future.”