The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/weather/)
The Sun asked several Cornell professors in climate science and facilities staff about how the current heat in Ithaca stacks up, and what the administration plans to do about it.
The Ithaca campus “will be closed and classes are cancelled,” read an updated version of a Cornell emergency alert.
The latest updates on Wednesday’s snow: Cornell is open and TCAT buses are running, but some routes are delayed.
Gusts of wind up to 70 M.P.H. are possible until 10 p.m., when the tornado watch ends.
The National Weather Service is expecting 10 to 15 inches of snow to fall on Ithaca by Wednesday night, and warned residents to only travel in emergency situations.
Winds up to 50 m.p.h. blew through Ithaca on Thursday, and one gust knocked a tree onto a car early in the morning.
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Sun Weather Columnists Brian Crandall ’10 and John Cintineo ’09 recently analyzed weather data during the Cornell Days of the last several years in order to find out whether there does in fact exist a “weather machine.”
The Cornell Days weather machine is commonplace discussion during the period when accepted high schoolers come back to decide whether they will make Cornell their home. The myth often conjures up thoughts of President David Skorton pulling a lever and making the clouds disappear. But this current of bout of beautiful weather raises the question of whether there is in fact a machine, and what it actually does.
Students walk past a winter maintenance sign posted on the pathway near the Andrew Dickson White House last Wednesday.
The start of the school year is a bittersweet time for Cornellians. As memories of exotic vacations, endless days of doing absolutely nothing and tans begin to fade, a pleasant, painless transition seems little to ask for. Alas, it is not in the forecast. All that is in the forecast is rain, rain and more rain.
