Happy new year! While we recover from the Lakies and the holidays, we're re-airing this great conversation with Tom Coomes of ABC57 in South Bend. Tune in to learn about the polar vortex, lake effect, and drinking yellow snow.

• Tom Coomes (@TomCoomes) | Twitter
• IISG on Twitter
• Two Yellow Buoys on Twitter
• Look, we have a new website!
• SNL El Nino Sketch
• Polar vortex - Wikipedia
• Pictures of Sun Dogs that Stuart took during the horribly cold winter of 2014
• Lake-effect snow - Wikipedia
• Lake-effect snow on Imgur
• Lake-effect snow activity from the Center for Great Lakes Literacy
• Arctic oscillation - Wikipedia
• Sweet, sweet lake effect flow - Album on Imgur
• Olathe Sweet Corn Fest
• Yellow Snow IPA | Rogue Ales | BeerAdvocate

Theme song written and recorded by Stuart Carlton, not that anyone else would want credit for that. Additional music provided by: Jimmy Fontanez/Media Right Productions.