Average Precipitation for Kentucky in April The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall plus snowfall during April at cities, towns and parks in Kentucky. Each place has a total for the amount of precipitation it usually receives this month. Most sites also have information on the number of days with wet weather. This includes […]

Preventing Frozen Pipes   When water freezes, it expands. That’s why a can of soda explodes if it’s put into a freezer to chill quickly and forgotten. When water freezes in a pipe, it expands the same way. If it expands enough, the pipe bursts, water escapes and serious damage results. Why Pipes Burst Surprisingly, ice forming in […]

Thanksgiving Cooking Tips: Serving Up a Side of Safety Thanksgiving is a day full of enticing smells, good company and lots of laughs – but along with the enjoyable chaos is the reality that cooking fires are three times more likely to occur on Thanksgiving than any other day of the year. In addition to […]

How Much Water? June 6, 2012 | USGS “If you took all the water on earth – in oceans, ice caps, lakes, rivers, groundwater, the atmosphere, and living things – and wrapped it into a sphere, it would have a diameter of about 860 miles. That 860-mile-high sphere is represented by the largest bubble in […]