
and appreciate that they are the mostly hardy backbone along with lots of dieback herbaceous tropicals.and that my beautiful Bismarckia, which has survived three years now and looks wonderful despite repeated insults down to 23F and many hours below freezing, one day will do that 'Adonidia' thing in a below-average winter. I love my Sabals, Rhapis, Chamaedorea radicalis, Livistona chinensis and saribus, Phoenix sylvestris, etc. With 25,000 followers - and over 1 million hits a week - it attracted plenty of media attention.Eric, your logic of "annuals that get lucky" is a great and very Zen-like one.I have to keep that in mind constantly here in this southern REFRIGERATOR I moved to four years ago from frost-free Los Angeles.oh well. In 2015 Scott changed his website’s name to the more professional sounding WeatherOptics. With 4,000 downloads, it was the go-to app for students, parents, teachers - and administrators. Next, Scott created an app called “Know Snow.” It predicted the chances that school would close, for every town in Fairfield County. He opened a premium section, with customers paying for personalized forecasting, weather consulting and exclusive content.

Soon, Wild About Weather became a real business. In one blizzard, he had a web reach of 2.3 million people. During Hurricane Irene, the numbers snowballed (so to speak). With each storm he forecast correctly, his followers grew. When he started a Facebook page, his audience exploded. It drew about 12 followers (mostly family members). He started a blog called Wild About Weather.

Six years ago - as a Staples High School freshman - Scott got tired of sharing his maps and forecasts with a few family members. Then came online forums like AWE (the Association of Weather Enthusiasts), filled with people who share his passion. He taught himself all about meteorology.

Scott Pecioriello drew this weather map when he was 10 years old.įrom there Scott advanced to the Weather Channel.
