Well, we’ve endured the first lake effect snowfall of the year. A few inches blanketed lawns and landscapes from Oswego to Ithaca after flakes began falling at noon Friday, Nov. 14, and continued on and off for a couple days.
The unusual mid-day squall was offset by intermittent appearances of blue skies and sunshine, as though Mother Nature couldn’t quite make up her mind.
Variable weather
Liverpool native Carrie Cheevers knows how fast the weather can change in Upstate New York. The Time Warner Cable News meteorologist grew up experiencing ever-changing weather here including frequent deluges of snow blowing down from Lake Ontario. Cheevers joined Time Warner Cable News in 2003 as part of the station’s original team of meteorologists.
Ever since she attended Liverpool Middle School, Cheevers has been fascinated by the weather. Even at that young age, she knew meteorology would become her life’s pursuit. So Cheevers interned at WTVH-5’s weather center in her sophomore year at Liverpool High School and again during her junior year at SUNY Oswego, where she received her meteorology degree.
Before joining TWC News in Syracuse, Cheevers worked as morning meteorologist at WUTR-TV in Utica.
“I love living in New York state primarily due to the changing of the four seasons and the lake effect snow,” she said.
Freezing temperatures
Early this week, Cheevers reported, we were due to for a low pressure system to swing northward from the southern states, bringing more snow but just a dusting as compared to the usual lake effect barrages. Beware sleet, however, if things happen to warm up suddenly.
Another blast of frigid air will pour into Central New York mid-week, perhaps triggering another significant lake effect snow event, especially due east of Lake Ontario. Temperatures will rarely rise above freezing…
So it goes.
Shovel as though you were used to it. Scrape as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Jazz Vespers Sunday
Another talented Liverpool gal, trombonist-singer Melissa Gardiner, will be featured at a unique Jazz Vespers concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 23, at Fayetteville United Methodist Church, 601 E. Genesee St., in Fayetteville.
The concert,titled “Getting in Tune with the Holidays — And All That Jazz,” will showcase Gardiner, who will be backed by music director Barry Blumenthal leading the CNY Jazz Quartet, musicians drawn from the ranks of the CNY Jazz Orchestra.
Musical selections will range from jazz standards to inspirational favorites to hymns, all arranged in the jazz style. They will be interspersed with inspirational and meditative readings by the Rev. Bob Sherburne, pastor of the church.
The Jazz Vespers concert is free and open to people of all faiths. Free-will donations will be accepted. For information, call CNY Jazz Central at 479-5299.
A trombonist’s ‘Transition’
An alumna of Liverpool High School, Gardiner studied music at the University of Michigan before earning a master’s degree at the Juilliard School of Music where she studied under trombonist Steve Turre. In 2011, she released her debut disc, “Transitions,” which includes tunes such as “But Not for Me” and “Black Orpheus.”
Gardiner has entertained in New York City at prestigious venues such as Lincoln Center, The Iridium, Smalls Jazz Club and The Blue Note. She has also blown her horn on Carnival Cruise Lines and at Disneyland.
More recently, she worked in the pit orchestra for the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse in Auburn; melissamaymusic.com.
What’s in a name?
Jolie and Oakley Clement, who live in Liverpool, welcomed their second daughter into the world in mid-October, and they named her Willow.
What a perfect name for a Liverpool kid! I mean the willow basket industry made our village world-famous in the late 19th century. And it’s certainly a lovely name for a young lady!
Willow joins her older sister, Annie, in the Clement household.
By the way, Willow and Annie are the grandchildren of my buddy, Liverpool artist-carpenter Joe Romano, Jolie’s dad.
