Click here for Indiana temperatures and precipitation types. 8:45pm WIKI POTEETIA: Today’s .3″ of Indy snow makes it a nice even 52 inches for the snow season. The record for an entire season is 58.2. 6:34pm Winter Weather Advisory is canceled….26 minutes early! 5:50pm Precipitation largely over now south of Lafayette and west of Indy. […]
Friday Snow Blog
10:15pm: The Airport’s final report of the day is 5.5 inches. That equals 50.6 inches for the “snow year” of July 1-June 30. It’s the snowiest since 1995-96. It’s the fourth snowiest winter season on record and only 7.7 inches away from being THE biggest snow year on record. 1. 58.2″ (1981-82) 2. 57.9″ (1977-78) […]
Tuesday+Wednesday Snow Blog
FINAL ENTRY The NWS map of reported snowfall from this event: 12:30pm One more new round of reports from last night: 7.5″ Atlanta (Tipton County) 7.2″ New Castle 8.0″ Indian Heights (Howard County) 6.4″ Muncie 7.0″ Alexandria 9.3″ Frankfort 9.0″ West Lafayette 7.0″ Delphi 7.0″ Huntington 7.0″ Marion 4.0″ South Bend 11:00am Indianapolis Winter […]
Friday Night/Saturday Morning Snow Blog
(Click here for My Huge Radar page.) 10:50am: This Month is now the 2nd snowiest January and 4th snowiest ever. 10:15am: 2.5″ Zionsville 9:50am: SUMMARY/SOME NEW TOTALS: The snow is largely finished, but the travel problems aren’t. A Winter Weather Advisory is in place until 1pm, because of winds gusting to 40 mph behind our […]
Tuesday Morning Snow Blog
SUMMARY: Winds will gradually subside through the afternoon, after peaking with a gust of 43 mph at 5:46 this morning. Those winds combined with falling to snow to bring visibilities down for much of the morning rush hours. Prospects for your trip home are (literally) much brighter. Temps tumbled from 30 at 2am to 10 […]
Saturday Snow Blog
(Click here for My Huge Radar page.) RECAP OF SNOW: The heaviest snow this time landed on locations north of Indianapolis. I got several 5-6 reports via social media and email from Tipton and Madison Counties. The Indianapolis Airport total was 2.4 inches. The January total is now 23.3 inches. That is (wait for it) […]
INDYSTAR VIDEO: Weekend Weather & The Next Big Thing
You made it through the Mayans and the biggest snow in months. Are you ready for the round? (Of snow, that is.) Just Press Play below and get my take in one minute. Want more? I’m in the STAR every day. Click here for the latest weather blog, including the daily almanac, and today’s wind […]
Saturday Snow Blog
7pm UPDATE: The Winter Weather Advisory is no longer in effect for central Indiana. The official Indianapolis total was 3.0 inches. More fell to the west, and less fell to the northeast. Detailed reports from the Weather Service are here. 3pm UPDATE: Snow continues to diminish in the northwestern quarter of Indiana. Anderson now reports […]
VIDEO: How Many Times Has Paul Poteet Been Fired?
Failure? Robby Slaughter wrote the book on it. He was at my Blog Indiana 2010 Keynote talk last Saturday. One of the things I spoke of was how I’ve always been uninterested in Office Politics. That was one reason I tried to think ahead and diversify when it came to my career. That, in turn, […]
What Would You Say I Do Here?
A friend of mine who is still in television passed on the recent comment of a worried anchor: “If I get fired, I could always do what Paul does.” On Saturday I’m supposed to keynote at Blog Indiana and explain how 30+ years in Old Media led up to what I do now. So, my […]
VIDEO: Paul Speaks At Blog Indiana Saturday
Blog Indiana’s description of my session. Man. I’m OLD. BIN stands for Blog Indiana, and their annual event is coming soon. It’s a 2-day social media and blogging conference sponsored by the IU School of Informatics. It’s for anyone interested in new (social) media marketing and biz. Over 25 sessions will be offered by the […]
The Twitter Hack That Forced Following And Forced A Reset
If your Twitter follower/following counts fell to zero earlier today–here’s why: Original: the site Gizmodo stumbled onto an amazing hole in Twitter that allowed you to have anyone you want following you. It looks like Twitter has shut this down after word of the hole spread across…Twitter. Here’s how it worked.
