Earth Science

Children fear what they are unfamiliar with. The first time a baby sees a dog, the baby will probably cry and yell and want to be taken away from the dog, because it is unfamiliar to them. This is also…
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Some things, human beings should be incapable of achieving. Of course, we aren’t exactly known to follow these rules, what with the advents of biological warfare, crystal meth and the atomic bomb. But, should we find a way to reach…
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In the world of medicine, surgeons are forced sometimes to make decisions that enable them to help some patients while leaving others to their “doom”. The decision making process is known as triage, and focuses on concentrating the doctor’s effort…
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Lightning is a visible electric discharge that shoots through the atmosphere. It rarely occurs alone and it is usually accompanied by thunder and rain. The discharge can occur between two regions of the atmosphere or between the land and a…
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Some people often misunderstand the difference between a tornado watch and a tornado warning. Those two weather terms are often heard from various television news stations and radio stations throughout the eastern half of the United States. One term from…
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Which are deadlier: hurricanes or tornadoes? Hurricanes kill more human lives because they are larger and certainly not because they are stronger than tornadoes (they are not). Hurricanes have a tendency to hit places like the coast of Florida, Louisiana,…
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When the natural instinct of any animal is to survive we have to do everything we can to make sure we do survive. Our entire international society is based on the basic rule of surviving. Everything we do technologically and…
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As a meteorologist, the holiday season is often filled with gripes and light-hearted ribbing about how I can be employed in a profession where I can provide the public with wrong information and still retain my job. “Those lousy weathermen…
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In its wake, the Great White Hurricane left as much as 50 inches of snow in Connecticut and Massachusetts, forty in New York and New Jersey. The New York World reported particularly horrific conditions in New York City, which was…
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January 26th, 2009 marked Kentucky’s worst ice storm in its recorded history. Ice storms can be crippling as a thin layer of ice coats almost everything it possibly can. Precipitation comes down as freezing rain and immediately freezes. It forms…
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