Earth Science

The Difference Between Weather and Climate When you wake up in the morning, perhaps one of the first things you do is to turn on the radio or TV and check the weather report. “It’s going to be cold and…
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A group of coral islands scattered in the Arabian Sea, 300 miles southwest of the southern tip of India lays the Maldives or the sunny side of life. The equator passes through the island nation between Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll and…
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Hurricane names are something we all hear about, and if you are in their path, you feel their fury. These are tropical storms at first. As we all know, the storms grow stronger and sometimes they become a full blown…
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At first glance, most clouds probably seem to all be at roughly the elevation. They’re high, and that’s the end of the discussion, right? Not necessarily. Indeed, some clouds are surprisingly low to the ground – fog, for example, is…
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Leaving seven hundred dead, 18 billion of today’s dollars in damages, and striking with such speed it earned the nickname “The Long Island Express” (The History Channel Online), the category three hurricane which smashed New England September 21st, 1938, was…
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Winter is a time for the coldest temperatures to be registered in places within the temperate zones. However, some places on earth experience cold conditions far longer than others. Proximity to the Earth’s poles, altitude and climate contribute to some…
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Heat lightning is distant lightning without thunder or rain. It usually occurs when the weather is hot and muggy. For this reason, it is also sometimes called summer lightning. Heat lightning usually belongs to a storm which is too far…
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Air is the essential source for almost all living being. It is around us above us below us in one word it is wrapping the whole planet. The Greek Philosophers once considered it as one of the four basic elements….
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Clouds form when air with a relative humidity close to 100% cools. They are composed of that air and micro-droplets of liquid water, with either larger droplets of liquid water, centered around some type of solid particulate, or ice crystals,…
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Hurricanes are given names because most people relate better to names and are more successful at remembering them that way. Initially, they were given alphanumeric identifiers, but this was found to result in communication errors that could lead to some…
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