Welcome to 2022, especially for those still stranded in airports (or worse, stuck with in-laws) thanks to the triple-shot of overbooked flights, crew outages caused by COVID, and weather across the upper Midwest and Northeast. At least we're getting the worst of 2022 out of the way first, right?

Dreams of a white Christmas will remain unanswered for most of us this year, except for areas of the upper Northwest down toward Colorado, around Minnesota, and a little of the upper Northeast.

Time's Person of the Year, Elon Musk, received a range of reactions seldom seen by previous winners.

Excuse this interruption to Cyber Monday shopping, but now’s the time to plan out the rest of the year. Not the work, the important stuff: vacation time. There are three full weeks before the week of Christmas, so pick your days off quickly.

Welcome to the week of Thanksgiving, at least in the United States. More than a dozen other countries celebrate some type of holiday with this name or something similar.

November is shorthand for wet, cold, and messy weather for most of the country, and this year’s version starts this week. Rain sweeps from the Midwest to the Northeast, pushed by a cold front dropping 3-5 inches of white stuff across the upper Great Plains.

Halloween is over, except for the candy you stole from your kids and hid, so start the clock to 2022. Pedal to the metal, or maybe up your clock speed, and go directly to the end of the year. Except for Thanksgiving (in the U.S. at least). And for Christmas. And New Year’s Eve and Day.