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Reflections on the weatherMeet ProudToChase: Vito Kramer on Building a Weather Channel at 15 | Reflections on WeatherWhat turns a fascination with storms into a sense of purpose?In this Reflections on Weather interview, Simcha Lefton sits down with Vito Kramer, the 15-year-old creator of ProudToChase, for a thoughtful conversation about curiosity, hard work, and service.Vito reflects on how Hurricane Milton first drew him to weather, what he feels watching thunderstorms and lightning, and why keeping people safe matters so much to him. Along the way, they talk about learning meteorology, building a channel from scratch, faith and the mission behind his work, tornado safety, winter-weather coverage, and his hopes for ProudToChase.
2026-10-2543 min
Reflections on the weatherInterview With Podcaster Proud To ChaseSimcha Lefton (Weather with Enthusiasm) sits down with Vito Kramer of Proud to Chase - the 15-year-old weather broadcaster who grew to 160,000+ views in just four months.In this interview: how Proud to Chase went from an idea to a full-scale live weather operation, the Hurricane Polo live stream, what El Nino means for this winter, the tornado safety myth to stop believing, faith behind the mission, balancing school with broadcasting, and much more.CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome0:35 From idea to a full-scale weather operation3:13 Central Florida and what sparked it all5:33 How Proud to Chase...
2026-10-2545 min
Reflections on the weatherSt. Louis Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 25, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS St. Louis and MoreSt. Louis Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 25, 2026Kol Simcha Productions | Weather With Enthusiasm━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━HEBREW DATE & PARSHA━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━11 Tamuz 5786 — Parsha: Chukat-Balak (read this Shabbos, June 27)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TODAY'S ZMANIM — St. Louis, MO (ZIP 63132)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Alos HaShachar (Dawn): 3:55:34 AMEarliest Talis & Tefillin: 4:29:38 AMNetz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:38:12 AMSof Zman Krias Shma: 9:21:12 AMSof Zman Tefila: 10:35:32 AMChatzos (Solar Noon): 1:04:12 PMEarliest Mincha: 1:41:22 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:30:12 PM━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TOMORROW'S ZMANIM — Friday, June 26, 2026━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Alos HaShachar: 3:55:59 AMEarliest Talis & Tefillin: 4:30:01 AMNetz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:38:33 AMSof Zman Krias Shma: 9:21:29 AMSof Zman Tefila: 10:35:47 AMChatzos: 1:04:24 PMEarliest Mincha: 1:41:34 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:30:16 PM━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SHABBOS TIMES (Chukat-Balak)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Hadlakas Neiros (Candle Lighting): 8:12 PM Friday (18 min before sunset — all customs)Havdalah (Young Israel...
2026-06-2607 min
Reflections on the weatherThe Great Appalachian Storm: Thanksgiving 1950 — America's Deadliest WinterThe Great Appalachian Storm — Thanksgiving 1950On Thanksgiving weekend 1950, one of the most meteorologically extraordinary and devastating winter storms in American history struck the eastern United States. What began as an arctic cold front rapidly evolved into a complex, multi-impact disaster that killed 160 people and became the costliest storm the nation had ever experienced at that time.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━KEY FACTS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📅 Dates: November 23–30, 1950📍 Region: Eastern United States — Appalachians, Ohio Valley, Northeast Coast💀 Deaths: 160 people❄️ Snowfall Record: Up to 62 inches at Coburn Creek, West Virginia; 57 inches across central Appalachians; 30.5 inches in Pittsburgh, PA🌬️ Wind Records: 94 mph gust in New York City | 108 mph in Newark, NJ | 140 mph at Bear Mountain, NY | 160 mph at Mount Washington, NH🌡️ Temp...
2026-06-2505 min
Reflections on the weatherThe Great Appalachian Storm: Thanksgiving 1950 — When America's Deadliest Winter StruckThe Great Appalachian Storm — Thanksgiving 1950On Thanksgiving weekend 1950, one of the most meteorologically extraordinary and devastating winter storms in American history struck the eastern United States. What began as an arctic cold front rapidly evolved into a complex, multi-impact disaster that killed 160 people and became the costliest storm the nation had ever experienced at that time.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━KEY FACTS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📅 Dates: November 23–30, 1950📍 Region: Eastern United States — Appalachians, Ohio Valley, Northeast Coast💀 Deaths: 160 people❄️ Snowfall Record: Up to 62 inches at Coburn Creek, West Virginia; 57 inches across central Appalachians; 30.5 inches in Pittsburgh, PA🌬️ Wind Records: 94 mph gust in New York City | 108 mph in Newark, NJ | 140 mph at Bear Mountain, NY | 160 mph at Mount Washington, NH🌡️ Temp...
2026-06-2505 min
Reflections on the weatherLakewood Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 25, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS New Jersey and MoreLakewood Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 25, 2026Produced by Kol Simcha Productions | Weather With Enthusiasm━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📅 HEBREW DATE & PARSHA━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Hebrew Date: 11 Tamuz 5786Parsha: Chukat-Balak (double portion — diaspora cycle)Read this Shabbos, June 27, 2026━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🕰️ TODAY'S ZMANIM — Lakewood, NJ (ZIP 08701)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Alos HaShachar: 3:41:11 AMEarliest Talis & Tefillin: 4:16:43 AMNetz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:27:17 AMLatest Krias Shma: 9:11:57 AMLatest Tefila: 10:26:51 AMChatzos: 12:56:38 PMEarliest Mincha: 1:34:04 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:25:59 PM━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌦️ NWS MOUNT HOLLY FORECAST SUMMARY━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Issued: 3:38 AM EDT, June 25, 2026 | NWS Mt. Holly NJ (PHI Office)• Tonight: Showers/storms possible near/north of I-78, especially PA and far northern NJ, around midnight–early Friday. Instability meager — severe risk very low. Some downpours possible.• Friday: Mostly dry during the day for most of area. Shower and storm chances increase Friday evening/night with approaching shortwave and front.• Saturday: Showers lin...
2026-06-2507 min
Reflections on the weatherBaltimore Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 25, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS Baltimore and MoreBaltimore Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 25, 2026Produced by Kol Simcha Productions | Weather With Enthusiasm━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📅 HEBREW DATE & PARSHA━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Hebrew Date: 11 Tamuz 5786Parsha: Chukat-Balak (double portion — diaspora cycle)Read this Shabbos, June 27, 2026━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🕰️ TODAY'S ZMANIM — Baltimore, MD (ZIP 21215)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Alos HaShachar: 3:56:42 AMEarliest Talis & Tefillin: 4:31:37 AMNetz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:41:19 AMLatest Krias Shma: 9:25:22 AMLatest Tefila: 10:40:03 AMChatzos: 1:09:25 PMEarliest Mincha: 1:46:46 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:37:31 PM━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌦️ NWS BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON FORECAST SUMMARY━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Issued: 3:55 AM EDT, June 25, 2026 | Forecasters: ADS/LFR/CJL (LWX Office)• Today: Isolated showers possible in northern/western MD and eastern WV. 850 mb (25.10 inHg) dewpoints below 10°C limit storm development.• Friday: Severe weather and damaging downburst wind risk as dewpoints rise above 10°C; hot air mass + mid-level dry air fuels storm downdrafts.• Saturday: Heaviest rainfall risk as deeper moisture arrives; moist adiabatic...
2026-06-2506 min
Reflections on the weatherBorough Park Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 25, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS New York and MoreBorough Park Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 25, 2026Weather With Enthusiasm | Kol Simcha Productions─────────────────────────────────────────HEBREW DATE & PARSHA─────────────────────────────────────────11 Tamuz 5786Parashat Chukat-Balak (diaspora combined) — read Shabbos June 27─────────────────────────────────────────TODAY'S ZMANIM — BOROUGH PARK (ZIP 11219)─────────────────────────────────────────Alos HaShachar: 3:37:30 AMMisheyakir: 4:14:16 AMNetz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:26:21 AMSof Zman Krias Shma: 9:12:31 AMSof Zman Tefila: 10:27:54 AMChatzos: 12:58:40 PMMincha Gedola: 1:36:22 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:30:59 PM─────────────────────────────────────────WEATHER SUMMARY — NWS NEW YORK (OKX)─────────────────────────────────────────Issued 2:22 AM EDT, Jun 25, 2026. Forecaster: BR.Complex frontal system impacts region today–Saturday. Multiple rounds of showers; no severe weather or flash flooding anticipated. Highs today and Friday in the low-mid 80s with elevated humidity. Less humid Saturday, mid-upper 70s. Possible summer heat event early next week — confidence low for mid-week conditions (NBM showing 15+ degree spread).─────────────────────────────────────────KIDS ACTIVITIES — BROOKLYN─────────────────────────────────────────1. Brooklyn Children's Museum — Community Access Thursdays 2-5 PM, FREE; Field Day Wo...
2026-06-2507 min
Reflections on the weatherMorning Briefing — Thursday, June 25, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS Chicago and MoreMorning Briefing — Thursday, June 25, 2026 | West Rogers Park, ChicagoWeather With Enthusiasm | Kol Simcha Productions─────────────────────────────────────────HEBREW DATE & PARSHA─────────────────────────────────────────11 Tamuz 5786Parashat Chukat-Balak (diaspora combined) — read Shabbos June 27─────────────────────────────────────────TODAY'S ZMANIM — WEST ROGERS PARK (ZIP 60645)─────────────────────────────────────────Alos HaShachar: 3:22:25 AMMisheyakir: 4:01:31 AMNetz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:16:26 AMSof Zman Krias Shma: 9:04:57 AMSof Zman Tefila: 10:21:07 AMChatzos: 12:53:28 PMMincha Gedola: 1:31:33 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:30:29 PM─────────────────────────────────────────WEATHER SUMMARY─────────────────────────────────────────Mostly quiet Thursday — partly sunny, upper 70s to near 80°F inland, cooler near the lake due to lake breeze. 20% isolated shower chance in Lake County.FRIDAY: Rain 20-30% north of I-80, 60-70%+ south of I-80. Storm threat low.SATURDAY NIGHT: Showers/storms possible along warm front.NEXT WEEK: First heat wave of summer — highs in the 90s, dewpoints 70s, heat indices ABOVE 100°F through mid-week.NWS Chicago AFD issued 2:50 AM CDT Jun 25, 2026. Forecaster: KJB.SPC Severe Hazard Outlook:• Tornadoes: Level 3 (some EF-2+)• Damaging Winds...
2026-06-2506 min
Reflections on the weatherMidwest Meltdown: Severe Weather Update — June 25, 2026 | Heat Wave + Storm ThreatMidwest Meltdown: Severe Weather Update — Thursday, June 25, 2026Weather With Enthusiasm | Kol Simcha ProductionsThe heat is building and so is the severe weather threat. This episode covers the full NWS Chicago Area Forecast Discussion from 2:50 AM CDT, June 25, 2026 — breaking down the multi-day pattern of storms, heat, and dangerous conditions heading into next week.─────────────────────────────────────────SPC INDIVIDUAL SEVERE HAZARD OUTLOOK─────────────────────────────────────────• Tornadoes: Level 3 — Some may be strong (EF-2+)• Damaging Winds: Level 3 — Gusts 60–80+ mph• Damaging Hail: Level 2 — Some ≥2" diameter• Flash Flooding: Level 2 — May be locally significant─────────────────────────────────────────KEY WEATHER MESSAGES (NWS Chicago)─────────────────────────────────────────• Early morning fog dissipating quickly after sunrise• Isolated shower chance (20%) Lake County IL this afternoon• Rain and possible thunderstorms Friday — 20-30% north of I-80, 60-70%+ south...
2026-06-2506 min
Reflections on the weatherJerusalem Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 25, 2026 | Zmanim, IMS Israel and MoreJerusalem Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 25, 2026Weather With Enthusiasm | Kol Simcha Productions─────────────────────────────────────────HEBREW DATE & PARSHA (ISRAEL CYCLE)─────────────────────────────────────────11 Tamuz 5786Parashat Balak (Israel cycle) — read Shabbos June 27─────────────────────────────────────────TODAY'S ZMANIM — JERUSALEM─────────────────────────────────────────Alos HaShachar: 4:07:30 AMMisheyakir: 4:35:29 AMNetz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:35:08 AMSof Zman Krias Shma: 9:08:27 AMSof Zman Tefila: 10:19:33 AMChatzos: 12:41:46 PMMincha Gedola: 1:17:19 PMShkiah (Sunset): 7:48:24 PM─────────────────────────────────────────WEATHER SUMMARY — JERUSALEM─────────────────────────────────────────Classic Mediterranean summer day. Sunny and warm with a high of 28–30°C (82–86°F). Extreme UV index (11–12) — protect accordingly. Westerly sea breeze arriving mid-morning, moderating the heat. Humidity around 30%. Pressure at 1016 hPa (30.00 inHg). No rain in the forecast for the next 10+ days.5-Day Outlook: Friday–Sunday highs 29–32°C, sunny and clear. Possible Sharav (hot, dry easterly wind) Monday–Tuesday pushing temps to 35°C+. Stay hydrated.─────────────────────────────────────────KIDS ACTIVITIES — JERUSALEM─────────────────────────────────────────1. Free morning yoga — Jerusalem Botanical Gardens
2026-06-2505 min
Reflections on the weatherGlobal Heat Report — June 14, 2026 | Death Valley, Pakistan, Fairbanks Arctic Heat AdvisoryGlobal Heat Report — Sunday, June 14, 2026Weather With Enthusiasm | Kol Simcha ProductionsToday's global temperature extremes and a deep dive into what is making this one of the most remarkable heat events on record — across multiple continents simultaneously.WORLD HIGH (as of 15:00 UTC June 14): Sibi, Pakistan — 47°C / 116.6°FALSO: Adrar (Algeria) & Qarn Alam (Oman) — 46.9°C / 116.4°FKuwait International Airport — 46.5°C / 115.7°FUS HOTTEST: Death Valley, California — ~119°FFull NWS Las Vegas Forecast Discussion (forecaster Soulat, 2:35 AM PDT June 14):8-12°F above normal through Wednesday. Major to Extreme heat risk (Levels 3-4 of 4) Tuesday-Wed...
2026-06-1408 min
Reflections on the weatherMorning Briefing — Sunday, June 14, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS Chicago and MoreMorning Briefing — Sunday, June 14, 2026West Rogers Park, Chicago (ZIP 60645)═══════════════════════════════════════HEBREW DATE & PARSHA═══════════════════════════════════════29 Sivan 5786 — Erev Rosh Chodesh TamuzParashat KorachRosh Chodesh Tamuz: June 15 (30 Sivan) and June 16 (1 Tamuz) — two-day Rosh Chodesh═══════════════════════════════════════ZMANIM — JUNE 14, 2026═══════════════════════════════════════Alos HaShachar: 3:20 AMEarliest Talis & Tefillin: 3:59 AMNetz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:14:34 AMSof Zman Krias Shma: 9:02:53 AMSof Zman Tefila: 10:19:00 AMChatzos: 12:51 PMEarliest Mincha: 1:29 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:27:50 PM═══════════════════════════════════════NWS CHICAGO FORECAST SUMMARY═══════════════════════════════════════Issued: 6:38 AM CDT Sunday June 14, 2026 — Forecasters CMS/Izzi, NWS Chicago/RomeovilleScattered showers and isolated thunderstorms through mid-morning as cold front sweeps through. Ending west to east by late morning. Northwest winds gusting to 30 mph through sunset. Highs mainly in the low to mid 70s. Afternoon: Partly cloudy, quieter. Beach Hazard Statement in effect for NW Indiana Lake Michigan beaches (Lake and Porter County, IN) through this evening — dangerous swimming conditions.Tuesday: SPC Level 1 severe threat, mainly afterno...
2026-06-1404 min
Reflections on the weatherMorning Briefing — Saturday Night, June 13, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS Chicago, Global Temps and MoreMorning Briefing — Saturday Night, June 13, 2026West Rogers Park, Chicago (ZIP 60645)Motzei Shabbos Edition═══════════════════════════════════════HEBREW DATE & PARSHA═══════════════════════════════════════28 Sivan 5786Parashat Sh'lachShabbos Mevarchim Chodesh TamuzMolad Tamuz: Monday, 6:46 AM and 16 chalakim═══════════════════════════════════════ZMANIM — JUNE 13, 2026═══════════════════════════════════════Alos HaShachar: 3:21 AMEarliest Talis & Tefillin: 4:00 AMNetz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:14:36 AMSof Zman Krias Shma: 9:02:48 AMSof Zman Tefila: 10:18:52 AMChatzos: 12:51 PMEarliest Mincha: 1:29 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:27:24 PMHavdalah (50 min): 9:17 PM═══════════════════════════════════════NWS CHICAGO FORECAST DISCUSSION SUMMARY═══════════════════════════════════════Issued: 8:37 PM CDT Saturday June 13, 2026 — Forecaster Ratzer (update); 3:24 PM by KJB (discussion)A cold front is sweeping through the Chicago area tonight, bringing isolated to scattered thunderstorms through midnight. Convection struggled this afternoon due to lack of low-level convergence and a cold pool from an upstream MCS. A DVN 00Z radiosonde showed 3,200 J/kg MUCAPE and 30 kts effective shear — supporting organized storms capable of wind/hail. Any severe threat ends from west to east with the...
2026-06-1406 min
Reflections on the weatherThe Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940: The Storm That Killed the Duck Hunters | Weather With EnthusiasmThe Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940: The Storm That Killed the Duck HuntersWeather With Enthusiasm — Episode 8 | Kol Simcha Productions===========================================EPISODE SUMMARY===========================================On the morning of November 11, 1940 — Armistice Day — thousands of duck hunters across Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois headed to the Mississippi River. The temperature was in the mid-50s. The sky was blue. The birds were flying. By nightfall, 154 people were dead.A rapidly deepening low-pressure system — one of the most intense ever recorded in the Midwest — exploded out of the Texas Panhandle and roared northeast. Temperatures plunged 30°F in hours. Winds reach...
2026-06-1102 min
Reflections on the weatherMorning Briefing — Thursday, June 11, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS Chicago and MoreMorning Briefing — Thursday, June 11, 2026West Rogers Park, Chicago (ZIP 60645)Weather With Enthusiasm | Kol Simcha Productions═══════════════════════════════════════════HEBREW DATE & PARSHA═══════════════════════════════════════════Today: 26 Sivan 5786Parsha: Sh'lachThis Shabbos: Shabbos Mevarchim Chodesh TamuzMolad Tamuz: Monday, 6:46 AM + 16 chalakimRosh Chodesh Tamuz: Monday June 15 & Tuesday June 16═══════════════════════════════════════════TODAY'S ZMANIM — June 11, 2026 / 26 Sivan 5786(Per Agudath Israel of West Rogers Park, N42°0'14")═══════════════════════════════════════════Alos HaShachar: 3:21 AMEarliest Talis & Tefillin: 4:00 AMNetz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:14 AMLatest Krias Shma: 9:02 AMLatest Tefila: 10:18 AMChatzos: 12:50 PMEarliest Mincha: 1:28 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:26 PM═══════════════════════════════════════════WEATHER SUMMARY═══════════════════════════════════════════HIGH-IMPACT SEVERE WEATHER DAY. NWS Chicago (forecaster Borchardt, issued 6:59 AM CDT) warns of multiple rounds of severe storms. Greatest threat: 4–11 PM. All hazards possible — torna
2026-06-1105 min
Reflections on the weatherBaltimore Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 11, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS Baltimore and MoreBaltimore Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 11, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS Baltimore and MoreWeather With Enthusiasm | Kol Simcha Productions━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━HEBREW DATE & PARSHA━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Today: 26 Sivan 5786Parsha: Sh'lachShabbos Mevarchim Chodesh TamuzMolad Tamuz: Monday, 6:46 AM + 16 chalakimRosh Chodesh Tamuz: Monday–Tuesday, June 15–16━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TODAY'S ZMANIM — Thursday, June 11, 2026Baltimore, MD 21215━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Alos HaShachar (Dawn): 3:55 AMEarliest Talis & Tefillin: 4:30 AMNetz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:39 AMLatest Krias Shma (GRA): 9:23 AMLatest Tefila (GRA): 10:37 AMChatzos (Halachic Midday): 1:06 PMEarliest Mincha (Mincha Gedola): 1:43 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:33 PMSource: https://www.hebcal.com/zmanim?cfg=json&zip=21215&sec=1━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WEATHER SUMMARY — NWS Sterling, VA (Baltimore/Washington)Issued: 3:11 AM EDT, Thu Jun 11, 2026 | Forecasters: LFR/BRO/KLW/DHOF━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
2026-06-1108 min
Reflections on the weatherLakewood Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 11, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS New Jersey and MoreLakewood Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 11, 2026Lakewood, New Jersey (ZIP 08701)Produced by Kol Simcha Productions━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━HEBREW DATE & PARSHA━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━26 Sivan 5786 | Parshas Sh'lachShabbos Mevarchim Chodesh TamuzMolad Tamuz: Monday, 6:46 AM + 16 chalakimRosh Chodesh Tamuz: Monday June 15 & Tuesday June 16 (two days)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TODAY'S ZMANIM — Thursday, June 11, 2026 | Lakewood NJ 08701━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Alos HaShachar (Dawn): 3:41 AMEarliest Talis & Tefillin: 4:16 AMNetz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:27 AMLatest Krias Shma (GRA): 9:11 AMLatest Tefila (GRA): 10:26 AMChatzos (Midday): 12:56 PMMincha Gedola: 1:34 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:25 PMSource: HebCal.com — https://www.hebcal.com/zmanim?cfg=json&zip=08701&sec=1━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WEATHER SUMMARY━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━DANGEROUS HEAT DAY. Highs in the low to mid 90s with heat index values of 95–105°F across most of the area. Heat Advisory in effect through Friday. Severe thunderstorm risk this afternoon and evening (mainly 5–11 PM)
2026-06-1108 min
Reflections on the weatherBorough Park Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 11, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS New York and MoreBorough Park Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 11, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS New York and MoreBorough Park, Brooklyn, New York | Weather With Enthusiasm — Kol Simcha Productions===========================================HEBREW DATE & PARSHA===========================================Hebrew Date: 26 Sivan 5786Parsha: Sh'lachShabbos Mevarchim Chodesh Tamuz: June 13, 2026Molad Tamuz: Monday, 6:46 AM and 16 chalakimRosh Chodesh Tamuz: June 15–16, 2026===========================================TODAY'S ZMANIM — Borough Park, Brooklyn (ZIP 11219)40.633°N 73.997°W | Elevation: 58m===========================================Alot HaShachar: 3:36:40 AMMisheyakir: 4:13:01 AMMisheyakir Machmir: 4:22:29 AMSunrise (Netz HaChama): 5:24:37 AMSof Zman Shma (GRA): 9:10:13 AMSof Zman Tefila (GRA): 10:25:24 AMChatzos...
2026-06-1104 min
Reflections on the weatherJerusalem Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 11, 2026 | Zmanim, IMS Israel and MoreJerusalem Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 11, 2026 | Zmanim, IMS Israel and MoreJerusalem, Israel | Weather With Enthusiasm — Kol Simcha Productions═══════════════════════════════════════════HEBREW DATE & PARSHA (ISRAEL CYCLE)═══════════════════════════════════════════Hebrew Date: 26 Sivan 5786Parsha (Israel cycle): Korach Israel is one parsha ahead of the diaspora this week. Israel reads Korach this Shabbos (June 13, 28 Sivan). Diaspora reads Sh'lach June 13.Shabbos Mevarchim Chodesh Tamuz: June 13, 2026 Molad Tamuz: Monday, 6:46 AM and 16 chalakimRosh Chodesh Tamuz: June 15–16, 2026Daf Yomi: Chullin 42═══════════════════════════════════════════TODAY'S ZMANIM — Jerusalem (31.769°N 35.216°E, elev. 786m)═══════════════════════════════════════════Alot HaShachar (16.1°): 4:05:56 AMMisheyakir (Lenient 11.5°): 4:33:44 AMMisheyakir (Machmir 10.2°): 4:41:18 AMHanetz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:33:06 AMSof Zman Shma (GRA): 9:05:59 AMSof Zman Tefila (GRA): 10:16:56 AMChatzos (Solar Noon): 12:38:51 PMMincha Gedola: 1:14:20 PMMincha Ketana: 4:47:12 PM
2026-06-1107 min
Reflections on the weatherMorning Briefing — Wednesday, June 10, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS Chicago and MoreThank you for all those that support this podcast If you benefit from these episodes and are able to provide support- your help is greatly appreciated. Morning Briefing — Wednesday, June 10, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS Chicago and MoreWest Rogers Park, Chicago (ZIP 60645) | Weather With Enthusiasm — Kol Simcha Productions═══════════════════════════════════════════HEBREW DATE & PARSHA═══════════════════════════════════════════Hebrew Date: 25 Sivan 5786Parsha: Shelach — The story of the Meraglim (spies). Kalev and Yehoshua stood firm with faith: "We are surely able to go up and take the land."Shabbos Mevarchim Chodesh Tamuz: June 13, 2026 (28 Sivan 5786)Rosh Chodesh Tamuz: June 15–16, 2026...
2026-06-1011 min
Reflections on the weatherMorning Briefing — Tuesday, June 9, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS Chicago and MoreMorning Briefing — Tuesday, June 9, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS Chicago and MoreWest Rogers Park, Chicago (ZIP 60645) | Weather With Enthusiasm — Kol Simcha Productions═══════════════════════════════════════════HEBREW DATE & PARSHA═══════════════════════════════════════════Hebrew Date: 24 Sivan 5786Parsha: Beha'alotcha• Aharon HaKohen kindles the Menorah• Journeys of the Jewish people in the wilderness• Laws of Pesach Sheni — the second Passover opportunity═══════════════════════════════════════════TODAY'S ZMANIM — ZIP 60645 (West Rogers Park)═══════════════════════════════════════════Alos HaShachar (Dawn): 3:22 AMMisheyakir (Earliest Talis/Tefillin): 4:00 AM (lenient) / 4:10 AM (machmir)Netz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:15 AMSof Zman Shma (GRA): 9:02 AMSof Zman Tefila: 10:18 AMChatzos (Halachic Midday): 12:50 PMMincha Gedola (Earliest Mincha): 1:28 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:25 PM═══════════════════════════════════════════WEATHER SUMMARY — NWS CHICAGO (LOT)═══════════════════════════════════════════Issued: 3:12 AM CDT Tuesday June 9, 2026 | Forecaster: Borchardt
2026-06-0910 min
Reflections on the weatherThe Dust Bowl: America's Decade of Darkness | 1930sThe Dust Bowl: America's Decade of Darkness | 1930sWeather With Enthusiasm | Kol Simcha ProductionsEpisode 6 | Tuesday, June 9, 2026EPISODE SUMMARYThe story of the Dust Bowl — the greatest human-caused ecological disaster in American history. This episode covers the decade of drought and dust storms that devastated the Great Plains from 1930 to 1939, with a focus on Black Sunday, April 14, 1935, when a wall of blackness one thousand feet tall and moving at sixty miles per hour swallowed the southern Plains in total darkness in the middle of the afternoon.KEY FACTSDates: 1930–1939 (drought waves: 1930-31, 1934, 1936, 1939-40...
2026-06-0907 min
Reflections on the weatherJune 7, 2026: Heat Dome Alert — 591 DAMTitleWeather With Enthusiasm — June 7, 2026: Heat Dome Alert — 591 DAMTimestamp Breakdown00:00 — Thrilling season trailer — summer heat arrives with a vengeance01:00 — Station ID01:04 — Host intro: Simcha Lefton sets the stage for a historic heat episode01:55 — Segment 1: Heat Dome Nation — the 591 dam ridge building into the Mid-South, what pressure ridges mean, and why meteorologists watch the 588/594 dam benchmarks09:00 — Segment 2: Arctic Contrast — a 505 dam low over Fairbanks, AK; 5–10" of snow in the Brooks Range while the Lower 48 bakes17:00 — Segment 3: Extreme Edge — Rio Grande Village, Big Bend NP hits 110–111°F Monday; the hottest inhabited corner of America24:00 — Segme...
2026-06-0750 min
Reflections on the weatherMorning Briefing — Sunday, June 7, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS Chicago and MoreMorning Briefing — Sunday, June 7, 2026West Rogers Park, Chicago (ZIP 60645)Weather With Enthusiasm | Kol Simcha ProductionsHEBREW DATE & PARSHA22 Sivan 5786 | Parashas Beha'alotchaParsha highlights: Aaron kindles the menorahBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2026-06-0709 min
Reflections on the weatherNational Synoptic Briefing — Heat Dome Week | June 6, 2026 | Bermuda High, Gulf Surge & City TempsNational Synoptic Briefing — Heat Dome WeekWeather With Enthusiasm | Kol Simcha ProductionsSaturday, June 6, 2026EPISODE SUMMARYA full national synoptic weather briefing covering the atmospheric setup across the continental United States for the week of June 6, 2026. This episode covers the heat dome building across the South and Plains, the Bermuda High's grip on the eastern US, Gulf of Mexico sea surface temperatures and their role in extreme humidity, surface high and low pressure systems with barometric readings, upper-level ridge and trough positions, dew points, and city-by-city temperature forecasts both short-term and extended.KEY SY...
2026-06-0707 min
Reflections on the weatherSt. Louis Morning Briefing — Friday, June 5, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS St. Louis and MoreSt. Louis Morning Briefing — Friday, June 5, 2026Kol Simcha Productions | Weather With Enthusiasm━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━HEBREW DATE & PARSHA━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━20 Sivan 5786 | Erev Shabbos | Parshas Beha'alotcha━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ZMANIM — University City, MO (ZIP 63132)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Alos HaShachar: 3:57 AMMisheyakir (standard): 4:30 AM | Misheyakir (machmir): 4:39 AMNetz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:37 AMLatest Krias Shma (GRA): 9:19 AMLatest Tefila (GRA): 10:33 AMChatzos: 1:00 PMMincha Gedola: 1:37 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:23 PMZMANIM — Chesterfield, MO (ZIP 63017)Sunrise: 5:38 AM | Sunset: 8:24 PM (approx. 1 min later than Univ. City)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SHABBOS TIMES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Hadlakas Neiros (Candle Lighting): Tonight at 8:05 PM (18 min before sunset)Havdalah — Young Israel of St. Louis: 9:06 PM (42 min after sunset — Chesterfield sunset used)Havdalah — Agudah of St. Louis: 9:09 PM (45 min after sunset — Chesterfield sunset used)Please follow your rav's minhag.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WEATHER SUMMARY — NWS St. Louis (LSX)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Issued: 3:10 AM CDT Fri Jun 5, 2026 | Forecaster: Jaja
2026-06-0506 min
Reflections on the weatherMorning Briefing — Friday, June 5, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS Chicago and MoreChicago Morning Briefing — Friday, June 5, 2026Kol Simcha Productions | Weather With Enthusiasm━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━HEBREW DATE & PARSHA━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━20 Sivan 5786 | Erev Shabbos | Parshas Beha'alotcha━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ZMANIM — West Rogers Park, Chicago (ZIP 60645)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Alos HaShachar: 3:24 AMMisheyakir (standard): 4:02 AM | Misheyakir (machmir): 4:12 AMNetz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:16 AMLatest Krias Shma (GRA): 9:02 AMLatest Tefila (GRA): 10:18 AMChatzos: 12:49 PMMincha Gedola: 1:27 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:22 PM━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SHABBOS TIMES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Hadlakas Neiros (Candle Lighting): Tonight at 8:04 PM (20 min before shkiah — Chicago minhag)Havdalah: Saturday, June 6 at 9:15 PM (50 min after shkiah — Chicago minhag)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WEATHER SUMMARY — NWS Chicago (LOT)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Issued: 6:51 AM CDT Fri Jun 5, 2026 | Forecaster: BorchardtA complex storm system brings waves of showers and thunderstorms today through Sunday, with a few storms potentially severe this afternoon — especially north of Interstate 80. An MCV (Mesoscale Convective Vortex) approaching from Iowa may produce super...
2026-06-0509 min
Reflections on the weatherChicago Community Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 4, 2026 | Zmanim, Mazel Tovs, NWS Chicago and MoreChicago Community Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 4, 2026Kol Simcha Productions | Weather With Enthusiasm━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ZMANIM — West Rogers Park, Chicago (ZIP 60645)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Hebrew Date: 19 Sivan 5786 | Parshas Beha'alotchaAlos HaShachar: 3:25 AMMisheyakir: 4:03 AM (standard) | 4:09 AM (machmir/stricter — fulfills all opinions)Netz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:16 AMLatest Krias Shma (GRA): 9:02 AMLatest Tefila (GRA): 10:18 AMChatzos (Halachic Midday): 12:49 PMMincha Gedola: 1:27 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:22 PM━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SHABBOS TIMES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Hadlakas Neiros (Candle Lighting): Friday, June 5 at 8:04 PM (20 min before shkiah — Chicago minhag)Havdalah: Saturday, June 6 at 9:15 PM (50 min after shkiah — Chicago minhag)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WEATHER SUMMARY — NWS Chicago (LOT)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Hot and humid conditions dominate Chicago and the region through this week and weekend, with temperatures reaching the upper 80s to low 90s. A cold front is ex...
2026-06-0509 min
Reflections on the weatherSt. Louis Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 4, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS St. Louis and MoreSt. Louis Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 4, 2026Weather With Enthusiasm | Kol Simcha ProductionsA special edition morning briefing for the Jewish communities of University City and Chesterfield, Missouri — covering zmanim, NWS St. Louis forecast discussion, and in-depth meteorology for the St. Louis area.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━HEBREW DATE & PARSHA━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━19 Sivan 5786 — Parshas Beha'alotchaThis Shabbos: Parashat Beha'alotcha (21 Sivan 5786)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TODAY'S ZMANIM — St. Louis, MO (ZIP 63103 / University City 63132)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Alos HaShachar (Alot HaShachar): 3:56 AMEarliest Talis & Tefillin (Misheyakir): 4:29 AM— Stricter opinion (machmir): 4:38 AM (fulfills mitzvah according to all opinions)Netz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:37 AMLatest Krias Shma (GRA): 9:18 AMLatest Tefila (GRA): 10:31 AMChatzos: 12:59 PMMincha Gedola (Earliest Mincha): 1:36 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:21 PMNote: University City (63132) and Chesterfield (6...
2026-06-0525 min
Reflections on the weatherMorning Briefing — Thursday, June 4, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS Chicago and MoreMorning Briefing — Thursday, June 4, 2026West Rogers Park, Chicago (ZIP 60645)Kol Simcha Productions | Weather With Enthusiasm━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━HEBREW DATE & PARSHAToday is the 19th of Sivan, 5786 — יט' סיון תשפ"וThis Shabbos: Parshas Beha'alotcha (Numbers 8:1–12:16)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TODAY'S ZMANIM — Thursday, June 4, 2026 (ZIP 60645)Source: https://www.hebcal.com/zmanim?cfg=json&zip=60645&sec=1Alos HaShachar (Dawn): 3:25 AMEarliest Talis & Tefillin: 4:03 AMNetz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:16 AMLatest Krias Shma (GRA): 9:02 AMLatest Tefila (GRA): 10:18 AMChatzos (Halachic Noon): 12:49 PMEarliest Mincha (Mincha Gedola): 1:27 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:22 PM━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SHABBOS TIMES — This WeekendSource: https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal?v=1&cfg=json&maj=on&min=on&mod=on&nx=on&year=2026&month=6&ss=on&mf=on&c=on&geo=zip&zip=60645&M=on&s=onHadlakas Neiros (Candle Lighting): Friday, June 5 at 8:03 PM (20 minutes before sunset, Chicago...
2026-06-0407 min
Reflections on the weatherJerusalem Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 4, 2026 | Zmanim, IMS Israel and MoreJerusalem Morning Briefing — Thursday, June 4, 2026Produced by Kol Simcha Productions | Weather With EnthusiasmHEBREW DATE & PARSHA (Israel cycle)19 Sivan 5786 | Parashat Sh'lachTODAY'S ZMANIM — Jerusalem, IsraelAlos HaShachar (Dawn): 4:07 AMMisheyakir (Earliest Talis & Tefillin): 4:35 AMNetz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:34 AMLatest Krias Shma: 9:05 AMLatest Tefila: 10:16 AMChatzos: 12:37 PMMincha Gedola (Earliest Mincha): 1:13 PMShkiah (Sunset): 7:41 PMSHABBOS TIMES — Parashat Sh'lachHadlakas Neiros (Candle Lighting, Friday): 7:01 PM (40 min before shkiah — minhag Yerushalayim)Havdalah (Saturday night): 8:32 PM (50 min after sunset)WEATHER SUMMARYClear an...
2026-06-0408 min
Reflections on the weatherThe Storm That Broke the Boom: The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926THE STORM THAT BROKE THE BOOM: THE GREAT MIAMI HURRICANE OF 1926Weather With Enthusiasm | Kol Simcha Productions━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━EPISODE SUMMARYOn the morning of September 18, 1926, a Category 4 hurricane made landfall near Perrine, Florida — just fifteen miles south of downtown Miami — and changed American history. The storm caught a booming, unprepared city almost entirely by surprise, killing hundreds, displacing tens of thousands, and delivering the final blow to the greatest real estate speculation in American history: the Florida Land Boom.This episode tells the full story: the storm's origin in the central Atlantic, the catastrophic failure of the warning system, the deadly lull of the eye, the destruction in Miami and Moore Haven, the econom...
2026-06-0308 min
Reflections on the weatherJerusalem Morning Briefing — Wednesday, June 3, 2026 | Zmanim, IMS Israel and MoreJerusalem Morning Briefing — Wednesday, June 3, 2026 Produced by Kol Simcha Productions | Weather With Enthusiasm HEBREW DATE & PARSHA 18 Sivan 5786 | Parashat Sh'lach TODAY'S ZMANIM — Jerusalem, Israel Alos HaShachar (Dawn): 4:07 AM Misheyakir (Earliest Talis & Tefillin): 4:35 AM Netz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:34 AM Latest Krias Shma: 9:05 AM Latest Tefila: 10:16 AM Chatzos: 12:37 PM Mincha Gedola (Earliest Mincha): 1:12 PM Shkiah (Sunset): 7:40 PM WEATHER SUMMARY A gorgeous late-spring day in Jerusalem. Clear skies with some high-level clouds drifting through this evening. High near 82°F (28°C). A northwest Mediterranean sea breeze picks up this aftern...
2026-06-0309 min
Reflections on the weatherLakewood Morning Briefing — Wednesday, June 3, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS New Jersey and MoreLakewood Morning Briefing — Wednesday, June 3, 2026Produced by Kol Simcha Productions | Weather With EnthusiasmHEBREW DATE & PARSHA18 Sivan 5786 | Parashat Beha'alotchaTODAY'S ZMANIM — Lakewood, NJ (ZIP 08701)Netz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:29 AMLatest Krias Shma: 9:12 AMLatest Tefila: 10:26 AMChatzos: 12:55 PMMincha Gedola (Earliest Mincha): 1:32 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:21 PMWEATHER SUMMARYA gorgeous late-spring day for Lakewood. High pressure from the Great Lakes keeps the region completely dry with mostly sunny skies. Highs in the low to mid 80s inland; the Jersey Shore runs cooler in the low 70s than...
2026-06-0309 min
Reflections on the weatherBaltimore Morning Briefing — Wednesday, June 3, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS Baltimore and MoreBaltimore Morning Briefing — Wednesday, June 3, 2026Weather With Enthusiasm | Kol Simcha Productions━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━HEBREW DATE & PARASHA18 Sivan 5786 | Parashat Beha'alotcha━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TODAY'S ZMANIM — Baltimore, MD (ZIP 21215)Wednesday, June 3, 2026• Netz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:41 AM• Latest Krias Shma (Gra): 9:23 AM• Latest Tefila: 10:37 AM• Chatzos (Halachic Midday): 1:05 PM• Mincha Gedola (Earliest Mincha): 1:42 PM• Shkiah (Sunset): 8:29 PMSource: Hebcal API (hebcal.com) — ZIP 21215━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WEATHER SUMMARYA quietly beautiful day in Baltimore — upper 70s to low 80s, clear skies, light NE winds. High pressure building overhead. Tonight drops to mid-upper 50s. Heat builds Thursday (mid-80s) and peaks Friday-Saturday (lower 90s) before a cold front brings widespread rain and possible severe storms Sunday. QPF 0.25–1.00" of rain expected — welcome given ongoing drought conditi...
2026-06-0309 min
Reflections on the weatherBorough Park Morning Briefing — Wednesday, June 3, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS New York and MoreBorough Park Morning Briefing — Wednesday, June 3, 2026Weather With Enthusiasm | Kol Simcha Productions━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━HEBREW DATE & PARASHA18 Sivan 5786 | Parashat Beha'alotcha━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TODAY'S ZMANIM — Borough Park, Brooklyn (ZIP 11219)Wednesday, June 3, 2026• Netz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:26 AM• Latest Krias Shma (Gra): 9:10 AM• Latest Tefila: 10:25 AM• Chatzos (Halachic Midday): 12:54 PM• Mincha Gedola (Earliest Mincha): 1:31 PM• Shkiah (Sunset): 8:22 PMSource: Hebcal API (hebcal.com) — ZIP 11219━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WEATHER SUMMARYA beautiful, gradually warming day for Brooklyn and the New York metro. The longwave trough has pushed off the coast, replaced by upper-level high pressure building from the west. Highs in the lower-to-mid 80s with tolerable humidity. No rain until the weekend. Summer heat arrives Friday and Saturday with lows 90s possible — dry enough to feel comfortable. Ra...
2026-06-0310 min
Reflections on the weatherMorning Briefing — Wednesday, June 3, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS Chicago and MoreMorning Briefing — Wednesday, June 3, 2026Weather With Enthusiasm | Kol Simcha Productions━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━HEBREW DATE & PARASHA18 Sivan 5786 | Parashat Beha'alotcha━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TODAY'S ZMANIM — West Rogers Park, Chicago (ZIP 60645)Wednesday, June 3, 2026• Netz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:16 AM• Latest Krias Shma (Gra): 9:02 AM• Latest Tefila: 10:18 AM• Chatzos (Halachic Midday): 12:49 PM• Mincha Gedola (Earliest Mincha): 1:26 PM• Shkiah (Sunset): 8:21 PMSource: Hebcal API (hebcal.com) — ZIP 60645━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WEATHER SUMMARYAnother gorgeous day inland with highs in the mid-80s. Surface high pressure building east over lower Michigan keeps skies clear and winds light. Lake cooling confined to immediate shoreline. Afternoon humidity drops into the 20s (%) inland — quite dry for early June. Rain and storms return Friday as a shortwave trough approaches. Fire weather watch possible Thursday...
2026-06-0311 min
Reflections on the weatherMorning Briefing — Tuesday, June 2, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS Chicago & MoreMORNING BRIEFING — Tuesday, June 2, 2026Weather With Enthusiasm | Kol Simcha Productions─────────────────────────────────────────────────Your complete daily briefing for West Rogers Park, Chicago (ZIP 60645) — including zmanim, a fully annotated National Weather Service Chicago forecast discussion, a special weather history moment, family activities in the Chicago metro area, and tomorrow's zmanim.─────────────────────────────────────────────────IN THIS EPISODE:☀️ TODAY'S ZMANIM (June 2, 2026 / 17 Sivan 5786)• Netz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:17 AM• Latest Krias Shma (Gra): 9:03 AM• Latest Tefila (Gra): 10:18 AM• Chatzos: 12:49 PM• Earliest Mincha (Mincha Gedola): 1:26 PM• Shkiah (Sunset): 8:20 PM📖 JEWISH CALENDAR• Hebrew Date: 17 Sivan 5786• Parasha: Beha'alotcha🌤️ PLAIN-ENGLISH WEATHER SUMMARYGorgeous day across Chicago. High pressure in full control — sunny skies, low humidity, highs in the upper 70s to near 80 inland. Co...
2026-06-0314 min
Reflections on the weatherThe Great White Hurricane: The Blizzard of 1888THE GREAT WHITE HURRICANE: The Blizzard of 1888Weather With Enthusiasm | Kol Simcha ProductionsEpisode 1─────────────────────────────────────────────────On the morning of March 12, 1888, New York City woke up to what seemed like an ordinary Monday. The temperature had been 50 degrees the day before. By dawn, everything had changed.In this episode, we cover one of the most catastrophic and consequential weather events in American history — the Great Blizzard of 1888, also known as the Great White Hurricane. Over three days, this storm killed more than 400 people along the Eastern Seaboard, stranded 15,000 commuters on elevated train lines above the frozen streets of Manhattan, and buried the city under snowdrifts that reached the second and th...
2026-06-0210 min
Reflections on the weatherThe Storm That Erased a City: Galveston, 1900""The Storm That Erased a City: Galveston, 1900"A Kol Simcha Productions Podcast: On the morning of September 8, 1900, the 38,000 residents of Galveston, Texas woke up to enormous, thrilling waves — and went to the beach to watch them. By nightfall, at least 8,000 of them were dead. The 1900 Galveston Hurricane remains the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States — more than five times deadlier than Hurricane Katrina. This is the full story: the arrogance that left a city defenseless, the physics of storm surge that swallowed an island whole, the eyewitness accounts of survival and loss, and t...
2026-06-0218 min
Reflections on the weatherAntarctica's Unprecedented Heatwave: A Global Chain ReactionWeather with Enthusiasm | Documentary Episode: "The Heat That Broke Antarctica"A documentary-style episode exploring one of the most extreme atmospheric events ever recorded.In March 2022, temperatures across East Antarctica spiked 38–40°C above normal — the most anomalous polar heat event in recorded history. This episode breaks down the full chain of events: what caused it, what it destroyed, and what it signals about the future of our climate system.What this episode covers:How a chain of tropical cyclones near Madagascar, Indonesia, and northwest Australia triggered a cascade of atmospheric events thousands of miles awayThe role...
2026-04-2814 min
Torah With SimchaMazel Tov! It's a Boy! 6/7/25This episode discussed some of the themes discussed in the 4th Aliya of Parshas Naso. This is connected to the baby that was born the 4th day of the week. We also discuss a new pshat on a part of a mishna mentioned in previous episode. And finally we discuss a piece of Torah that could be found in the back of Mesifta Gemorah Mesechta pesachim. It's regarding how the Satan focuses his main energy on food, and that this is the area we could be sanctified the most. This is all a result of Adam Harishon being nichshol through...
2025-06-0817 min
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2025-02-2415 min2025-02-0922 minReflections on the weatherGFS brings historical Snow to Midwest next week around 2/11/25Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2025-02-0200 min
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2024-07-1227 min
Reflections on the weatherQuick Review and Shabbos Forecast for St.Louis and ChicagoQuick Review and Shabbos Forecast for St.Louis and ChicagoBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2024-06-2209 min
Torah ShiurimReflections On The Years With Rabbi Pollack Zatzal By Simcha LeftonReflections On The Years With Rabbi Pollack Zatzal By Simcha Lefton
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Old (Weather With Enthusiasm)Special Edition: Israel's Climate Adaptation (4/4/24).This episode discusses the impressive techniques that Israel has used to adapt to its climate. We include some information regarding climate changes impact on Israel and some information on how Israel has gone about in figuring this out. Most of the information presented here comes from the climate branch of the Israel Meteorological Society. This information is being presented by weather enthusiast Simcha Lefton and is a 10 minute review of a previous episode on "Reflections on Weather". There is a 2 minute segment at the end taken from "Weather With Enthusiasm". Enjoy!
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2024-04-0412 min
Reflections on the weatherIsrael's Climate AdaptationIsrael's Climate Adaptation: This episode is the final 15 minutes of the previous episode. The episode focuses on Israel and mentions climate change's impact on Israel. The main focus is on climate adaptation. This was recorded 4/4/24.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2024-04-0416 min
Reflections on the weather4/4/24: Cloud seeding review, Israel's climate adaptation and response to climate change.This episode has 2 parts. The 1st part is about 7.5 minutes long. It consists of a relatively quick review of the various information we have covered over the years regarding cloud seeding. It's not an in depth discussion, just a review. Part 2 consists of new information and focuses on Israel's response to climate change with a focus on climate adaptation. Much of the information comes from the climate department of the Israel Meteorological Society Enjoy!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2024-04-0424 min
Reflections on the weather10 minute review of Israel's Climate Adaptation and Climate Change Impact10 minute review of Israel's Climate Adaptation and Climate Change Impact. Most information comes from the climate branch of the Israel Meteorological Society.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2024-04-0409 min
Reflections on the weather3/21/24: 3 Snow Storms over next 10 days for upper MidwestA clipper will bring 5+ inches of snow in its bulls eye. We discuss when and where this will occur. Then a powerful winter storm will bring heavy snow early next week. We discuss how this will happen and where this will happen. Finally, a 3rd system is discussed which is likely to impact similar areas late next week.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2024-03-2213 min
Reflections on the weatherColorado Summer Snowstorm of 2020 (4 minutes)Colorado Summer Snowstorm of 2020Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2024-03-1804 minReflections on the weatherSouth Sudan Heat (less than 4 minutes)South Sudan Heat (less than 4 minutes) . Made 3/16/24. Revised 3/17/24.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2024-03-1803 minReflections on the weatherGreta Thunberg Shma, Prayer, Our ActionsGreta Thunberg Shma, Prayer, Our ActionsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2024-03-0319 minReflections on the weatherSpecial Edition: Discovering A New World Through The Tornado- The Greatness Of MeteorologistsSpecial Edition: Discovering A New World Through The Tornado- The Greatness Of MeteorologistsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2024-03-0311 minReflections on the weather2/27/24: Severe Weather Risk Includes Chicago, then snow followed by return of Unseasonably Warmth2/27/24: Severe Weather Risk Includes Chicago, then snow followed by return of Unseasonably WarmthBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2024-02-2713 min
Reflections on the weather2/4/24: In Depth Discussion Of Pattern Change (Chicago)2/4/24: In Depth Discussion Of Pattern Change (Chicago)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2024-02-0518 minReflections on the weatherMore detailed weather made 1/29/24Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2024-01-3049 minReflections on the weather1/12/24 storm and more1/12/24 storm and moreBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2024-01-1226 minReflections on the weatherBaltimore Snow 1/16/24? And Chicago snow 1/12/24Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2024-01-1222 minReflections on the weatherOur Next Winter Storm Friday 1/12/24. Baltimore 1/16/24?Our Next Winter Storm Friday 1/12/24. Baltimore 1/16/24?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2024-01-1115 minReflections on the weather12/24/23: Midwest Weather12/24/23: Midwest WeatherBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-12-2509 minReflections on the weatherMidwest Blizzard/Record Warmth 12/25/23Midwest Blizzard/Record Warmth 12/25/23Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-12-2508 minReflections on the weather12/17/23: Arctic Blast for Monday With South Bend Winter Storm12/17/23: Arctic Blast for Monday With South Bend Winter StormBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-12-1705 minReflections on the weather(3min) 12/13/23:Texas snow develops as Canadian warmth from the Pacific heads to the Northeast12/13/23:Texas snow develops as Canadian warmth from the Pacific heads to the NortheastBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-12-1304 minReflections on the weather12/2/23: This Weeks storms, next 10 days12/2/23: This Weeks storms, next 10 daysBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-12-0311 minReflections on the weatherSnow totals November 26th, storm summarySnow totals November 26th, storm summaryBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-11-2709 minReflections on the weatherSnowfall totals in Chicago & Midwest 11/26, Arctic Air FollowsSnowfall totals in Chicago & Midwest 11/26, Arctic Air FollowsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-11-2611 minReflections on the weatherComplex Weather Pattern For Week Of November 19th.Complex Weather Pattern For Week Of November 19th.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-11-1903 min
Reflections on the weatherAustralian Heatwave (Late November 2023)Australian Heatwave (Late November 2023)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-11-1902 minReflections on the weather11/17/23: Weather Next 9 Days11/17/23: Weather Next 9 DaysBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-11-1713 min
Reflections on the weatherHalloween Thundersnow Chicago 2023Halloween Thundersnow Chicago 2023. National Weather Service nailed it.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-11-1006 min
Reflections on the weatherChicago Thundersnow? Recorded 10/30/23Day before Thunder snow hit Chicago recorded October 30th 2023Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-11-1024 minReflections on the weatherNovember 7th (week of). Includes Blizzard and record heat.November 7th (week of). Includes Blizzard and record heat.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-11-0906 minReflections on the weatherWeather With Enthusiasm 😜 (Trailer)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-11-0901 min
Torah ShiurimEulogy on Rav Calman Weinreb by Simcha LeftonEulogy on Rav Calman Weinreb by Simcha Lefton
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2023-08-1631 min
Reflections on the weatherWeather With Enthusiasm (Trailer)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-06-0700 min
Reflections on the weatherAuthentic Reflections On Weather (Trailer)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-04-2600 min
Reflections on the weatherDust bowl Years forecasts (mock)and historical data- St.Louis July 1936,1934,1901,1954,2012June 5th 1936 podcast (covers July) Dust bowl Years forecasts (mock)and historical data- St.Louis July 1936,1934,1901,1954,2012Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-04-1620 min
Reflections on the weatherWords of inspiration for week of 4-10: Warm & Record Warmth4 min inspirational weatherBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-04-1104 minReflections on the weatherExtra Shticky Sound Effects Added Lekavod Purim, 30 Min Torah Reflections At The End1st 5 minutes 50seconds has very accurate background music (after the 1st one). 5min 50 sec starts Purim edition (added weather to provide more info and more sound effects) and NWS PART of program. Around 35 minutes in is a 5 minute Summary of ALL weather. About 40 minutes in is a 20 minute Torah reflection on snow, shovav'im and chodesh Adar.About 61 minutes in is a 9 or 10 minute Purim messageThe final 5 minutes is the main Torah connected to Purim....starting at 66 minutes. Note: Not all words in the Torah section were translated. However the...
2023-03-071h 10Reflections on the weatherPurim MessageBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-03-0709 min
Reflections on the weather(40+ min of entertainment)3-5-23: With Entertaining Sound Effects and background music 🎵This is the same podcast as the previous one (which is available with subscription) but contains entertaining sound effects 3-5-23: Made 13th of Adar.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-03-0643 minReflections on the weatherBaltimore Snow?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-02-2804 min
Reflections on the weatherTorah reflections on weatherTorah reflections on weatherBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reflections-on-the-weather--5747023/support.
2023-02-2319 min