For one to understand the effects of El Nino (El Nino-Southern Oscillation) on the global weather, one has to know what it means in the first place. El Nino a.k.a. ENSO is defined as the following: a quasi-periodic climate pattern…
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Novelist Ernest Hemingway wrote “The Sun Also Rises,” and like everywhere on Earth, it also rose in the tiny fishing town of Ilulissat, Greenland on January 11, 2011. Except the sun wasn’t supposed to rise there until January 13th; it…
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El Niño is a period of very high temperatures in the Pacific Ocean. El Niño literally means “the boy” referring to the child Jesus because El Niño often occurs during Christmas season. El Niño can affect weather disturbances in different…
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There are several kinds of snowstorms and each can be substantially different that other types in many ways. However, all of them require two things: Humidity and cold temperatures near the ground. Let’s look at how, in general, a typical…
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El Nino, formally known as the El Nino Southern Oscillation, is a major five-year climate pattern over the Pacific Ocean, which affects land regions all around that ocean, including at considerable distances from the coast. It is characterized by unseasonally…
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Katabatic wind describes the movement of cool air down a hillside into a valley or depression. It is one of several mountain or valley winds which are caused by a difference in ground level atmospheric temperature and density. The phenomenon…
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“Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning.” This age-old expression was first uttered thousands of years ago and has probably been used thousands of times since. But is there really any truth to…
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Few of us might have even bothered to consider air as matter, far more that the apparent nothingness has various components. Fresh air is easy to take for granted, until we go without it at least. When we were first taught…
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Ike, Katrina, Rita, Gaston – names many of us associate with destruction. They are names of hurricanes that have hit the coastlines of the United States in the past few years. But have you ever wondered how or why they…
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WISPS ON THE MORNING DAWN From the cute little puppy dogs to the ominous ogres in the sky, clouds can capture many an imagination. Little children sometimes think that clouds might be made of cotton candy. That’s a sweet thought,…
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