It is not where the rain fell, it is where the water could not leave. Here are eleven.
1. It Marks a Low Point, Not a Wet Spot
Water standing…
A few metres can be worth a couple of degrees and three weeks. Here are fourteen.
1. A Wall Facing the Sun Is a Storage Heater
Masonry absorbs heat through…
Thunder is usually described as the noise lightning makes, which suggests the bolt itself is loud in the way a bell or an engine is loud. It is not. Lightning…
The shape is the instrument reading. Here are seventeen.
1. The Fluffy White Heap With a Flat Base
Cumulus forms where warm ground heats a bubble of air until it…
Nearly everyone learns that a rainbow is sunlight split into colours by raindrops, which is true and which explains almost none of the things that are actually strange about rainbows.…
There is a question about weathervanes that catches almost everybody out, and it concerns which way the pointer faces.
The natural assumption is that the arrow shows where the wind…