🌞 A bit of good news today! Sunset today is at 5:00 p.m. which marks the first 5 p.m. sunset of the year. The days continue to get a bit longer.

Can we even remember them? The six Holy Days of Obligation, where we Catholics in the United States attend the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Other countries have more – we’ve just got six! We should take seriously the obligation of praying at Mass on Sundays and those six days.

Happy Groundhog Day! All local groundhogs along with Punxsutawney Phil saw their shadow this morning, meaning 6 more weeks of winter!

Great photos of a slushy Hammonassett Beach in Madison thanks to our spell of cold weather. 📸 Janice Kmetz

Barnegat Light Today #longbeachisland #lbi #nj #NewJersey #bay #barnegat

Today is the final day of solar winter, the darkest 3-month period of the year By next week the sun angle is the same as October, which we affectionately call #SunAngleSzn Brighter times ahead 😎

🥶 Arctic Cold Front 🥶 Temperatures will drop rapidly later Saturday with strong northerly winds developing. By Sunday morning wind chills will drop to between -15F and -30F making it the coldest we've seen this winter!

Frozen Bay at Long Beach Island #lbi #longbeachisland #nj #newjersey #bay #video #short #winter #frozen #x

This is strange – when I was a kid, I used to love helping my mom hang the laundry on the clothesline to dry. But we never did it on Sunday! No unnecessary work on Sunday. It’s time for prayer, worship, Mass, family, friends, relaxation. The Good Newsroom

Jim Cantore The Weather Channel Please mute your enthusiasm. We’ve been staring at frozen snow since January and it’s almost March. The only thing overdue is sunshine and temps above freezing!

As Lent begins, the Church invites us to purify our hearts and renew our lives, drawing closer to God as we prepare for the great feast of Easter. One meaningful way to do this is by repenting of our sins and frequently receiving the Sacrament of Confession. No matter how long

Updated final call snowfall map. This is trending toward an earlier start. Posting my complete run down now.

None of us are worthy of heaven, but we also know that the mercy of Jesus on the Cross is so infinite and eternal that it even extends after we leave this earthly life. To pray for those souls awaiting the Lord's final mercy in purgatory is a beautiful act of Catholic devotion

March 4th is Grammar Day. #grammar #owls

eweather Thanks for the heads up!! Just noticed we are in moderate drought again...???? Seems odd given our mountain run off stream is healthy as are the rivers.

The beginning of an ice jam on the #CTRiver. The big ice sheets have broken off up river. The water is open in front of my house in Higganum and the surface is flowing. The ice is backing up on the surface from the East Haddam Swing Bridge north to roughly the Haddam Meadows

If Monday after daylight saving had a face…

On November 4, 1859, when a certain pious nun at the Franciscan Tertiary Convent in Folgino in Italy, by the name of Sr. Teresa Gesta died, her superior lamented and thought it wouldn't be surprising if God would glorify her by some miracle. After the nun's death, her job of

A young 51-foot endangered fin whale, found washed ashore in Barnegat Light was buried on the 25th Street beach. Officials are considering naming it, continuing a quiet tradition. Two previously deceased whales were named Albert and Beau by late Mayor Kirk Larson.