Thunderstorms are dangerous affairs. Frequent, fairly-easily-managed affairs, true, but still dangerous. Those who don’t know what to do in a thunderstorm can easily get struck down by a bolt of lightning from the heavens, and given that lightning typically carries…
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Anyone who’s gone outside and looked at the sky has, without doubt, seen more than a few clouds in their day. Ever-present in many parts of the world and perhaps a bit too prevalent for some tastes, clouds are just…
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Lightning storms are rather frightening experiences for just about anyone. The sights and the sounds, the lightning and the thunder, are enough to make a lightning storm less-than-pleasurable for most – and the prospect of being struck by lightning during…
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The weather network shows a variety of interesting satellite imaging system information of the atmosphere of the planet Earth. State of the art technology is the channel from where the images are viewable in different correlated energy patterns of differing…
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Rain is a common phenomenon in most parts of the world, save those that are very hot and very dry. Scientifically speaking it’s the falling of precipitation from the sky in the form of water droplets; in layman’s terms, rain…
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Of all the clouds that appear in the sky, cumulonimbus clouds are the ones that garner the most attention from people on the ground, and are often the ones that are most readily named. There’s a good reason for this,…
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According to current scientific orthodoxy, the main cause of global warming is the large amount of man-made carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere. Henrik Svensmark is a scientist who has put forward an alternative hypothesis, however. He proposes that global warming…
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The modern system of naming hurricanes in the Atlantic has been around since the year 1953. Naming the various tropical disturbances in the Atlantic makes differentiating between various ones a lot easier, as well as the study of them. During…
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One of the most deadly and damaging effects of tropical cyclones is what is called the “storm surge”. The flooding associated with such a surge can carry for miles inland, flooding roads and buildings and trapping residents in extremely hazardous…
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Perhaps no where in the United States is the success of the Clean Air Act more apparent than in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Known around the world as the Steel City, Pittsburgh was once described in its industrial heyday as “Hell with…
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