A halo is a ring of light encircling and extending away from the sun or moon. The display of light is produced when sunlight or moonlight is refracted off tiny ice crystals contained within cirrostratus clouds. The most common type…
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The United States is home to fifty-nine national parks. The protected areas cover more than 84 million acres in every state except Delaware, and see nearly 300 million visitors per year. Temperatures in the US vary widely and subsequently temperatures…
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The shaky ground people call an earthquake is caused by the sudden release of energy, deep within the Earth’s crust, when titanic blocks of rock jostle against each other. This energy acts much like the sound of a gunshot or other…
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Thunderstorms are fairly frequent meteorological events. Brilliantly illuminating darkened skies with the flash of lightning and shaking our windows with the subsequent thunder. Frequent squalls of heavy rain inundate the land below them. But on rare occasions in winter, instead…
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Not all storms are efficient at producing precipitation that will fall to the ground. Cloud seeding aims to increase the number of ice particles in the right kind of storm, and more ice crystals means more snow. According to Scientific American,…
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Tornadoes are some of the deadliest forces in nature. Tornadoes are violent rotating columns of air that extend from a thunderstorm and make contact with the ground. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), although tornadoes mainly occur…
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By now most people have heard of the philosophy of human life that asserts human life, with its massive infestation and “flesh eating” of the earth is a parasite, or a disease, which Gaia, (earth) is getting a fever from. …
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Not all crude oil has the same composition. Some is heavier, some lighter, and some sour, meaning it contains more than about 2.5 percent sulfur. All crude oil, though, is a mixture of different hydrocarbons, which are molecules composed of…
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The Chinook Winds, popularly called Chinooks, refer to the wind originating from the Pacific Coast during moist weather. Hitting inland and running into a barrier of coastal mountains, the wind tends to cool rapidly as they climb the western slopes…
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The Nikkei Weekly had an interesting article on how a problem in developing the next generation of high speed wireless communications, was turned into an opportunity for monitoring the local storms. The article stated that the next generation of high…
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