While doing research to write a composition on the composition of air, I made the mistake of asking Dr. Gimbal Glosspan , the British Specialist in Atmospheric Compounds, while we were at the hot air balloon show in New Mexico,…
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On one foul night my wife and myself were engrossed in watching an oldie horror film starring both Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre, a film filled with lots of scary stuff with a background of a Bach organ piece adding…
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Weather is influenced by many things, including temperature, precipitation, and even location. Temperature is how hot or cool an area is. Precipitation is rain, snow, sleet or even hail. Location is where people live. Temperature isn’t the only thing that…
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While middle-latitude cyclones help transfer heat and moisture pole ward and bring colder and drier air Equator ward, Hurricanes and their counterparts in other locales all within a broad class of storms known as tropical cyclones, move incredible amounts of…
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Heat lightning refers to distant flashes of lightning that occur on the horizon during hot weather and are not accompanied by thunder. It is incorrect to assume that the lightning is caused by the heat, but the term was coined…
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Nothing grows without water and for the people of India, agriculture yields 25% of the country’s income. Their crops of cotton, rice, oilseeds, and coarse grains receive 80% of their moisture from the annual summer monsoon. If the rains arrive…
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Artic outbreak vortices, frigid fog funnels or more commonly known as Steam Devils’, these rare and seemingly shy atmospheric events are one of nature’s more subtle beauties. Known for their luminous arrangement and delicate formation these artic phenomenon’s last only…
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Though we know much more about weather now than we did in times past such as how it forms, what drives it, and what the science behind it is, weather prediction is still a long way from being an exact…
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Science and technology are closely related in the gold mining process. Especially in the extracting and processing of the metal. Gold is a golden yellow metal, which is solid at room temperature. Au is the symbol for gold, its atomic…
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As every parent knows, bad weather can bring all kinds of difficult scenarios for children and keeping your child safe is the first important thing that comes to mind when watching them venture outside. Most children don’t really understand or…
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