There is a common assumption that a hot place is hot and a cold place is cold, and that a location is one or the other.
Deserts break that assumption…
Everything below comes from one thing: the axis the Earth spins on is not perpendicular to the plane it orbits in. Every seasonal phenomenon anywhere is a consequence of that…
Look at any vernacular building and the roof tells you the weather before anybody mentions it. Here are eleven of the things a roof is arguing with.
1. The Steep…
The photographs are among the most striking images in science: a column of ash rising into the dark, with lightning threading through it.
The informal name is a dirty thunderstorm,…
The instinct when it rains on a trip is to wait it out, which wastes the day. The better approach is to switch to the version of the destination that…
Ordinary lightning is well understood. It is a fast, enormous electrical discharge, it lasts a fraction of a second, it leaves physical traces, and it can be measured, photographed, and…