INNformer

01/01/2026

Weather and Traffic Briefs
January 1, 2026 10:45 a.m.

Good Morning and Happy New Year! That’s right, today is THURSDAY, the first day of January in the Year of our Lord, Two Thousand and Twenty-six.

May the coming year bring joy, prosperity and peace.

Weather:
Today will be mostly cloudy, with highs only reaching into the mid 20s. Tonight, cloudy with temps in the lower 20s.

For tomorrow, partly cloudy with highs in the mid 30s.

Extended forecast, milder temperatures return on Monday with temperatures in the upper 40s and lower 50s all week. At this point.

Traffic:
Main roads are generally clear. Be careful of ice under the snow on the secondaries.

And remember, you should watch for trouble on the goat paths in the back of Tyler and Wetzel counties. Who knows what the old goats are up to these days.

Currently at our Downtown Sistersville News Command Center it is 20 degrees under hazy skies.

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12/31/2025

Weather and Traffic
December 31, 2026 9:54 a.m.

Good Morning! Today is Wednesday, December 31. New Years Eve! If you are going to be out tonight to celebrate be careful and stay safe. We are under a Winter Weather Advisory until tomorrow morning with two to four inches of snow expected.

And lets be honest, some of our good neighbors can’t drive when its nice and sunny out so a little bit of snow will make them even worse.

The next issue of the INNformer comes out next week.

On this day in 1775, seven months before the Continental Congress declared Independence, the Continental Army was defeated in the battle of Quebec City, where forces from primarily New England attempted to seize the strategically important town during a raging snowstorm.

The ill-conceived invasion began in large part because the Continentals thought that the French would rise up against the British, who controlled the city since 1763. However, King George had given the French everything they wanted and they were suspicious of the colonies over religion and those four wars they fought against each other.

Speaking of the French, in 1805 returned to the Gregorian calendar and abandoned the French Revolutionary calendar. In a bid to remove all references to their history and religion, during their revolution they created a calendar that considered of twelve 30-day months, broken down into three 10-day cycles instead of 7 day weeks. The months were named after weather and agriculture.

And in 1862, on New Year’s Eve, President Abraham Lincoln signed the act admitting West Virginia as a state contingent on a referendum approving changes to the Mountain State’s proposed state constitution.

Weather:
Today will be cloudy with highs around freezing. Tonight temperatures will rain steady around 32 with snow developing in the evening.

For New Year’s Day, Hangovers with a chance of sun. Highs only in the mid 20s.

Extended outlook, Global Warming kicks in on Monday with highs in the mid 40s.

Traffic:
Main roads are generally clear.

Currently at our Downtown Sistersville News Command Center it is 25 degrees and cloudy.

Happy New Year!

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12/30/2025

Winter Weather Advisory
December 30, 2025 1:08 p.m.
National Weather Service..WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM WEDNESDAY TO 10 AM THURSDAY...

* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 2 and 4 inches.

* WHERE...Portions of southeast Ohio and central, northeast,
northern, southeast, and southern West Virginia.

* WHEN...From 4 PM Wednesday to 10 AM EST Thursday.

* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous
conditions could impact the Wednesday evening and Thursday morning commutes.

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12/29/2025

WIND ADVISOR
December 28, 2025 10:35 p.m.

WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 7 PM EST MONDAY...

* WHAT...West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph expected.

* WHERE...Portions of northeast Kentucky, southeast Ohio, and
central, northeast, northern, southeast, southern, and western
West Virginia.

* WHEN...From 1 AM to 7 PM EST Monday.

* IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree
limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.

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12/24/2025

Breaking (not really) News:
NORAD is tracking Santa
December 24, 2025 9:26 a.m.

You may have to copy and paste link.
https://www.noradsanta.org/en/map

12/19/2025

Advisory for morning commute:
Dec. 19, 2025 2 a.m.

Looking at the radar it looks like the temperature will be plunging during the next few hours. It's 56 degrees at 2 a.m. but snow is in the forecast for 7:30 a.m.

If there is snow in the air assume that there will be ice on the roads and drive accordingly.

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12/18/2025

Weather and Traffic
December 18, 2025 8:39 a.m.

Good Morning! Today is THURSDAY, December 18 and it’s still 2025. It’s also Bake Cookies Day! So you know what to do and you can guess who would volunteer to be the cookie tester.

Just kidding, my wife has me on a strict diet. Oh well.

Today I’m making mouse pads for the newspaper. Any group looking to do fund-raising or if you have a business and want coffee mugs, mouse pads, or other stuff, to promote your venture let me know!

On this day in1620 the Mayflower anchored in what was to become Plymouth Harbor, coming to the end of their four month long stay onboard. They had sighted land on Nov. 19 and had planned on trying to sail south but winter seas kept them near where they made landfall and the cape they landed on wasn’t suitable for settlement.

In 1865 slavery ended in the United States when the 13th Amendment was ratified by the required three-quarts of the states and in 1917 the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, Prohibition, was approved by the Congress and sent to the states for ratification.

Weather:
Today will start with a mix of sun and clouds. Highs in the upper 50s. Rain developing in the afternoon. It may become windy. Tonight rain with lows in the mid-30s.

For tomorrow, showers in the morning. Temperatures falling through the day.

Traffic:
The usual. Be careful of the roads this morning- the areas that look wet may be ice.

Currently at our Downtown Sistersville News Command Center it is 33 degrees under mostly clear skies.

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12/16/2025

Weather and Traffic
December 16, 2025 9 a.m.

Good Morning! Today is TUESDAY, December 16 in the Year of Our Lord Two thousand and twenty five. Today is National Chocolate Covered Anything Day and in South Africa, Day of Reconciliation Day.

While it may be an South African thing, maybe today should be the day when you swallow your pride and reach out to family members and old friends that you have distanced yourself from over long-past squabbles and try patch things up. Sometimes it’s better to set the unpleasantness aside before you find it’s too late.

People change and some realize that issues that seemed important at the time really just aren’t.

Make the phone call and tell them that you were just thinking of them. One of my dear friends, whom I considered a brother, went to his reward deeply regretting that he had been alienated from his sons for years. He was a prideful and stubborn cuss, don’t be like him.

On this day in 1773 Bostonians held a little Tea Party. After gathering at Faunal Hall a group of Sons of Liberty painted themselves up as Mohawk Indians and raided three ships at the docks laden with East Indian Tea and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor.

The colonialists were upset over the Tea Act of 1773, which granted the financially struggling East India Company a monopoly on the American tea trade and because the tax was imposed on the colonies by the British Parliament without colonial representation.

It also lowered the tax on it and priced the tea so that it undercut even tea smuggled into the port by Dutch traders.

While certainly an act of civil disobedience, the leaders of the Sons of Liberty made sure that the only damage was to the checks of tea and even asked the ships captains for the keys to the hatches so they didn’t have to breaking them open. They also prevented the theft of the tea by participants.

And yes, even today we are a nation of coffee drinkers because of the Tea Party. Drinking tea was seen as unpatriotic

In 1777 Virginia became the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation, which the government of the country operated on until March of 1789 when the current U.S. Constitution was ratified.

The Articles of Confederation proved to be unworkable as each state was considered sovereign and the federal government was basically powerless and the various states refused to work together. Something that the Confederates would learn during the rebellion when they couldn’t even come up with a unified military command structure.

And in 1811 the New Madrid, Missouri earthquake hit. Estimated to be between 7.2 to 8.2, with an aftershock of 7.4, it is the most powerful earthquake to hit east of the Rocky Mountains and caused wide spread changes to the topography of the area with parts subsiding and others uplifting.

The area is considered overdue for another large earthquake.

Weather:
Much warmer. Mostly sunny today with highs reaching into the upper 30s. Overnight lows just above freezing.

For tomorrow, global warming returns with temperatures near 50.

Traffic:
A reminder that when the snow melts it becomes water. That water will refreeze on roads where the sun isn’t hitting it and becomes ice. Ice is slippery - so drive carefully.

And New Martinsville is still annoying, ice or not.

Currently at our Downtown Sistersville News Command Center it 17 degrees under partly cloudy skies.

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12/16/2025

Tyler, Wetzel and Pleasants schools closed for Tuesday, Dec. 16.

Source:

Announcements for counties are posted by County Board Offices. Announcements for non-public schools and charter schools are posted by the individual schools. Please contact your County Board Office or the individual school if you have a question about posted or missing announcements. County Offices....

12/15/2025

Weather and Traffic
December 15, 2025 9:24 a.m.

Good Morning! Today is MONDAY, December 15th and it’s still 2025. It’s National Cupcake Day, International Tea Day and, dedicated to our Editor, Cat Herders Day.

So much for Snowmagedon. We got around five inches here in Sistersville, the low end of what was predicted. Low temperature here in the valley was around 2 degrees. Just remember to thank God for global warming this morning. Can you just imagine how cold it would be without glabal warming?

I’m working on producing some last minute gift ideas today. Assuming that the stuff that didn’t show up on Saturday comes in today, that is.

On this day in 1791 the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, was ratified by Virginia and became law. They were approved by Congress in September 1789 and were part of an understanding that took place when the Constitution was passed by Congress.

While the Constitution, itself, outlines how the federal government is structured and is intended to operate, the Bill of Rights restricts the federal government from taking away or restricting certain rights. It is incorrect to say that it grants rights, it prohibits the government from taking away that what we already have.

In 1840 the mortal remains of Napoleon Bonaparte were buried in France, 19 years after he died on Saint Helena island while in exile following his defeat at the battle of Waterloo.

And in 1939 the movie “Gone with the Wind” premiered in Atlanta. Staring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable it is the highest-grossing film of all time, when adjusted for inflation and in 1954 scientists at GE in Schenectady, NY discovered that they had created synthetic diamonds while playing around with high pressure, high temperature machines.

Weather:
Today will be mostly cloudy with high temperatures in the upper teens. Tonight, mostly cloudy with lows in the mid teens. For tomorrow, mostly sunny with highs near 40.

Extended: Tuesday through Thursday the warming continues with day time high on Thursday in the low to mid 60s.

Traffic:
Main roads are generally clear with no major problems reported at this time. Secondaries, snow covered and slick. Take it slow today, if the roads look wet then it’s ice.

Currently at our Downtown Sistersville News Command Center it is 7 degrees under cloudy skies. When news happens it better be when it’s a little warmer out.

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12/14/2025

Tyler and Wetzel Schools closed for Monday, Dec. 15

Tyler and Wetzel Schools are closed for Monday, Dec. 15 per state school closing website.

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12/14/2025

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