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projo.com/weather
Temperature, forecasts, downtown webcam.

Winter weather awareness
from the National Weather Service

Coping With Winter
Information For Dealing With the Snow and Cold Temperatures - North Dakota State University

National Snow and Ice Data Center

Wind chill chart
If it's 32 degrees with a 10 mph wind, how cold does it feel? The answer is here.

The Official Click and Clack Winter Driving Rules
from Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the CarTalk guys

How to Drive in the Snow
from Edmunds.com

Driving in snow
Tips from the Clemson U. Ski / Snowboard group.

How to get and stay warm

Winter Storms
(Scholastic) - Learn all about storms and check out a stormy timeline. Don't forget to try your hand at creating weather with the Interactive Weathermaker! You'll be able to turn a sunny day into a windy or rainy day. If you create the correct conditions, you can make a blizzard - complete with a whiteout!

TV listings (more on our TV page)

Seed catalogs online: Two mega-indexes of seed catalogs

Cyndi's Catalog of Garden Catalogs

Garden blogs - Weblogs by gardeners worldwide

projo.com/garden
Seed catalogs, Your Garden Shots slideshow. Remember summer and plan ahead.

Calendars
When cabin fever strikes, here's what to do

Ski Guide
Where to ski, conditions around New England, tips and more

Theater
What's playing where and when, with reviews

Music
Gigs to go to, mp3s to stay home with

Movies
Showtimes and reviews for first-run films and videos, too.

Winter Festivals
Worldwide and by state

Skiing

Yawgoo Valley
- Yawgoo Valley Rd., Exeter (401) 295-5366: 12 Trails, snow tubing, retail shop, rental shop, ski school, restaurant. Mon - Fri: 10 AM - 10 PM Sat/Sun: 8:30 AM - 10 PM Jan 21: 8:30 AM - 10 PM

Sledding & Cross Country Skiing conditions: Providence Department of Public Parks, (401) 785-9450.

Wachusett Mountain
- (508) 464-2300 / Webcam

More in projo.com/skiing

Projo.com/food
Stories, recipes, net-wide recipe search

Winter snacks for kids
serious 500 winter/seasonal recipes at Recipezaar

Holiday side dishes
North Coast Cooperative - Succotash comes from a Narragansett Indian word meaning 'boiled whole kernels of corn'

Soups

Souprecipe.com
Hundreds of recipes

Chef-of-the-month.com
boasts 10,838 soups, 3,123 stews, 402 stocks

yogasite.com
Vegetarian soups

Soup recipes from The Gutsy Gourmet

Hot and cool

Battlebots!
What are they? Comedy Central's radio-controlled dueling homemade machines bring fathers and sons, friends and foes together in an arena full of metal-crunching booby traps...

Build your own Battlebot

Robot kits

Make your computer do it your way

www.computertips.com
bills itself as the world's first absolutely free online computer reference site. Tips and how-tos for Windows, MS Office and the Net.

Shell Extension City.
The "shell" is the look, feel and function of your operating system. Extensions let you change the defaults. (For instance, you can change what's on the "context menu" that that appears when you right-click. Every day new tweaks and files, mostly free, are announced here. Be careful.

Rhode Island Department of Health flu clinics

Flu facts from The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Grandma's Chicken Soup Recipe, from Allrecipes.com

Tea and Health, Tea and Science, from A Beginner's Guide to Tea on the Web

Kids & families

Build a snowman online

Snow dance

Snow Crystals
Photo collections of snowflakes from around the world, how to photograph snowflakes and more.

Dave's Snowflake Page
Great paper snowflakes -- with patterns!

Make a Snowman Snowflake! : 6-pointed - 8-pointed

Kids: winter reading

Kids' lists of funny books, by age

Winter books
from Kids Domain pic

Projo.com's daily crossword puzzle

Snowtastic Snow
(Thinkquest Junior): Created by kids. Learn about the ice age, winter sports, winter safety, the science of glaciers, icebergs, and avalanches. Word puzzles, quizzes, mazes, jokes. Add your own favorite books, poems, and activities on the message board.

Billy Bear's Winter Activities
Learn how to make a snowman snowflake, play winter and Arctic animal games, make a snow globe, print coloring pages, download screen savers and desktop wallpaper, work out some cool jigsaw and slider puzzles, and play great online games such as Snowman Dress Up and Make a Snowman!

DLTK's Winter Crafts For Children
Patterns and instructions for crafts projects such as snowmen, wreaths, penguins, and mittens. Also: Coloring pages, e-cards, winter quotes and poems, printable winter bookmarks.

Travel
Get out of town! See the world!
Ski Guide
Get current conditions throughout the Northeast, weekly columns, tips and more.
In case of calamity
A guide to getting your financial affairs in order.
Blizzard of '78
A look back at the granddaddy of all winter storms.

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