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…
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The old saying tells us that lightning never strikes the same place twice. But there is one place on Earth where lightning strikes the same place over and over…