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The WILI Weather Calendar
 THE COVER OF THE 2013 WILI WEATHER CALENDAR SHOWS A FISHERMAN AT DAWN AT MANSFIELD HOLLOW LAKE IN OCTOBER 2012--Eleanor Linkkila photo
14/WILI has published the Eastern Connecticut Weather Calendar each year since 1988. The 2013 edition is now available at the offices of WILI at 720 Main Street in Willimantic. The calendar is written, researched, and prepared by WILI's resident "weather weenie", Wayne Norman. Some of the calendar's features include:
Copies of the WILI Weather Calendar are available for $5.00, two for $8.00 and three for $10.00 at the WILI offices Monday through Friday from 9 AM-5:00 PM, or can be obtained by mail by sending an additional $2.00 to cover postage and handling to:
WILI Weather Calendar
720 Main Street Willimantic, CT 06226 For more information about the WILI Weather Calendar, call (860) 456-1111. Some back issues are also still available. It's just one more indication that WILI takes the weather seriously. Here's the covers of some recent calendars:  The cover of the 2012 WILI Weather Calendar shows a windmill in Hampton stopped by the pre-Halloween snowstorm of October 29, 2011. -- Eleanor Linkkila photo.  The cover of the 2011 WILI Weather Calendar shows the Jillson House Museum and St. Mary's Church as taken from the Thread City Crossing bridge--Eleanor Linkkila photo.
   Here's the cover of the 2006 calendar--a shot taken by WILI's Wayne Norman on Eagleville Lake:
 WILI has had a full time staff of meteorologists since 1977. The forecast is heard twice during most hours, seven days a week. Each weekday morning, WILI's Wayne Norman conducts live discussions with Pat Pagano at 6:40am, 7:40am, and 8:40am, which go much deeper than just the forecast.   Pat Pagano
Former WILI Morning Meteorologist Tim Root
 Tim Root
  Tim Root in 1975 at the Barnum Show "Champions on Parade" He's on the right with the cymbals.
Some helpful weather links:
In April, 2010, Wayne Norman featured a "Weather Word of the Day" each morning at 6:45, as part of the "Windham Reads" literacy project with the Windham schools. WILI's Wayne Norman is a frequent visitor to New Hampshire's Mount Washington, home of "The World's Worst Weather." To see Wayne at the summit in winter conditions, click here.   Wayne's childhood home in Hollywood. That's not snow--it's HAIL! Wayne is peeking through the living room window. He can't play in the hail--he has chickenpox!
See photos of April 2010's high water at Mansfield Hollow Dam and local rivers. Click here.
Lebanon CT had a hailstorm on June 24, 2008. To see photos, click here.
See local photos of the BLIZZARD OF 2006 Connecticut had severe flooding in October 2005 after twelve inches of rain fell over nine days. To see photos of that flooding, CLICK HERE.
June 9 is the anniversary of the deadly Worcester Tornado in 1953. To view a slide show of photos from that storm, click here .
WILI listeners submitted photos from the December 17, 1973 Ice Storm which crippled Connecticut. To see the photos, click here .
The Hartford Courant produced a map showing the path of major hurricanes over Connecticut in the last 100 years. To see the map, click here. (Adobe reader required)
 WILI's Wayne Norman with our former morning meteorologist Mike Solomon in the 2004 WILI Boom Box Parade . Wayne is the parade's Grand Marshal. Armed with a squirt gun, Mike was "partly cloudy with a chance of showers."
Get the pollen report for Willimantic. Click here.
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