Yeah, we are doing a weather forecast!

As a news site, shouldn't we have a weather forecast? With a nice round yellow sun image, fluffy clouds, and cute super fat rain drops?

We decided to do one, a single one that has to be good enough for the year. The rest of the time, go to wunderground.com, they do a much better job at the weathery thing. And they don't bring down the effing tablet all the time like some of the heavy on user interface, light on content weather sites.

Our local weather experts are: one very old lady and our cats.

Their forecast for this winter: an early but not very harsh winter.

Early because the first swallows left in the middle of August, weeks before their normal departure time.

Not very harsh because the cats' winter fur is on the light side. A note of caution though: we have had apple blossoms in early September!

The humans at the K-Landnews think that this summer's odd weather patterns might have tricked the swallows and/or the cats to some extent. But the forecast above is as good as any, so, let's see what the next two months bring.