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Barb Mayes Boustead

Barb Mayes Boustead

5 Money-Saving (and Conservation-Friendly) Tips

Channel your inner Laura Ingalls Wilder!

Sep 18, 2023

A four-leaf young plant emerges from a pile of coins (mostly pennies)

Sep 18, 2023

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Writing Process Lessons from Laura Ingalls Wilder

Pioneer Girl: The Path into Fiction completes the full reveal from handwritten manuscript to polished and published

Jun 9, 2023

Three Pioneer Girl volumes lay spread on a white blanket. On top is Pioneer Girl: The Path to Fiction, the most recently published volume.

Jun 9, 2023

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The New Climate.

How Each Generation Experiences Climate Warming Differently

Our experience of warming defines each generation, from Laura Ingalls Wilder through Generation Alpha.

Apr 14, 2023

How Each Generation Experiences Climate Warming Differently

Apr 14, 2023

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Chasing Clout

“Bro culture” and storm chasing make a toxic mix

Apr 6, 2023

Chasing Clout

Apr 6, 2023

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3 Things Are True About the Winter of 2022–2023

The winter of 2022–2023 is ending. How did it measure up where you live?

Mar 3, 2023

3 Things Are True About the Winter of 2022–2023

Mar 3, 2023

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10 Books for People Who Like Weather and History

Add these books to your yearly reading list!

Jan 5, 2023

10 Books for People Who Like Weather and History

Jan 5, 2023

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Folklore or Forecast?

Pa Ingalls might have trusted the muskrats, but science has given us more reliable winter outlooks.

Oct 20, 2022

Folklore or Forecast?

Oct 20, 2022

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How Dry Is It?

What do you debate your spouse about? As a couple of meteorologists, we definitely debate the weather. My spouse is convinced that this…

Aug 3, 2022

How Dry Is It?

Aug 3, 2022

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FLASH! BANG! Why Fireworks Aren’t for Everyone (Even If They Used to Be)

When you grow up in an American Legion veterans-only settlement, you grow up understanding a few things. Flag codes. The difference between…

Jun 22, 2022

Distant fireworks shimmer over a large lake at twilight. In the foreground, a sandy beach with a patch of beach grass leads to shallow water with anchored and docked boats.

Jun 22, 2022

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How to Beat the Heat: See It Coming (More than a Week Ahead!)

There’s hot, like the typical heat of summer when children’s popsicles melt down their wrists before they can eat the whole thing, and the…

Jun 18, 2022

How to Beat the Heat: See It Coming (More than a Week Ahead!)

Jun 18, 2022

Barb Mayes Boustead

Barb Mayes Boustead

Meteorologist, climatologist, instructor, and past president of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association. Twitter @windbarb.

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