If you have ever tried to drive or ski on snow in the bright sunlight, without sunglasses, then you know just how bright white snow can be. Actually, it is the most naturally reflective substance on earth, which is the…
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The UK is known for having a mild and temperate climate however, it’s not unusual to experience extreme storms especially during October and January. While the scale of damage and ferocity of the winds can’t be compared with the devastating…
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Over India and the Asian land mass to the north of it, a summer low is replaced each year by a winter high. This happens because of the different ways that land and water react to temperature change. Ocean water…
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The atmosphere is not a static system, although it is in balance. It is a mixture of gases, with tiny grains of dust suspended in it. It holds in heat and shelters us from the cold of space, as it…
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It is interesting that many of the well-known weather adages rhyme and scan in the same way that nursery rhymes do. There are other parallels. Both are rooted in myth. We don’t know who made them up and we don’t…
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Whether you are the Captain of an aircraft carrier with orders to launch an air strike, a meteorologist tracking the development and progress of an hurricane in the Caribbean, or a power company technician monitoring a natural gas pipeline, some…
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Unless the way we name hurricanes changes again you will never be hit by Hurricane Quinn, Hurricane Ursula, or Hurricane Zelda. You can take those names right off the list. Since there are so few names that start with these…
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As the owners of a wholesale nursery in Oregon, we are always looking skyward to see what our gifts will be. Longer warmth into the fall and our growing season is extended. Early cold and it is stunted. Too much…
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BY ANY OTHER NAME Year after year us weather hounds watch the hurricanes come blowing though the different parts of the globe. We hear the alphabet of names start on “A” and run the gamut until the end of the…
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Global warming, like so many other things in today’s topic list, is controversial. People go both ways saying it is and isn’t true. Then once you’ve been convinced either way the debate gets deeper. If you choose to believe it…
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