URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 423 AM EST WED MAR 6 2013 PAZ060-061-103-105-062100- /O.EXT.KPHI.WW.Y.0014.130306T1200Z-130307T1100Z/ BERKS-LEHIGH-WESTERN MONTGOMERY-UPPER BUCKS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...READING...ALLENTOWN...COLLEGEVILLE... POTTSTOWN...CHALFONT...PERKASIE 423 AM EST WED MAR 6 2013 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 AM EST THURSDAY... * LOCATIONS...THE FAR NORTHWEST PHILADELPHIA SUBURBS...BERKS COUNTY AND THE WESTERN LEHIGH VALLEY. * HAZARD TYPES...SNOW. * ACCUMULATIONS...SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 2 TO 4 INCHES. * TIMING...SNOW IS EXPECTED THROUGH THE DAY AND WILL START TAPERING OFF THIS EVENING AND END TONIGHT. * IMPACTS...EXPECT SLUSHY TRAVELING CONDITIONS WITH THIS EVENINGS COMMUTE. GREATER IMPACTS WILL OCCUR ON SMALLER ROADWAYS. SNOW COULD ARRIVE IN TIME TO IMPACT THIS MORNINGS COMMUTE TOO. ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES ARE POSSIBLE. * WINDS...NORTH 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 30S. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
From the National Weather Service
Friday, March 1, 2013
Dr. Seuss - Read Across America
Dr. Seuss. Who was he?
Theodor Seuss Geisel became famous under the name of Dr.
Seuss.
He was not a medical doctor, but
an illustrator, a political cartoonist, and created art for Madison Avenue
advertising before he became a children’s author.
His first children’s book, And to Think That I Saw It On
Mulberry Street, an imaginative story about what a child sees on his
way home from school, was published in 1937.
His publisher, Houghton Mifflin, encouraged Geisel to create
a beginning reader book out of a list of only 250 common words. Geisel created The Cat in the Hat . It was the first of many in the Beginning
Reader series by Houghton Mifflin.
Geisel felt strongly that each child should have an affordable hard
cover book in their house, and until his death none of his books were available
in paperback.
Geisel was a perfectionist, and was not someone who catered
to adults. He felt the important person to impress was the child
reading the book.
Ted Geisel, Doctor Seuss, was born on March 2nd,
1904, and the National Education
Association has chosen that day for it’s celebration of children’s reading,
Read Across America.
Read to your child this week! Celebrate the life and works of Dr. Seuss.
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