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  • It's A Bit Early For A Freeze, Isn't it?
    A frost is about to hit the northeast US, in some places a month early. Could this be La Nina at work?
  • Weather And Business - A Great Day For Selling
    We all know that ice-cream sales go up in hot weather, but the weather has a significant impact on businesses the world over.
  • Global Warming - Survive And Thrive
    Throughout time plants and animals, including man, have evolved strategies to survive and thrive in a range of varying climates. Our current global warming is nothing unique. This article looks at how life adapts to climatic extremes
  • Hurricane Ike – Give the Caribbean a Break
    Fast on the heels of hurricane Gustav, Hurricane Ike has now torn across the Caribbean and slammed into Cuba. Where next for Ike? And how do these Hurricanes form?
  • Lightning - 5 Times Hotter Than The Surface of The Sun
    At any one time there are approximately 1,800 thunderstorms in progress and every second 100 lightning strikes. But clear patterns are now emerging of the occurrence of these bolts from the blue.
  • The Explosion of Hurricane Gustav
    Hurricane Gustav is the 3rd of the 2008 hurricane season, and as it heads out into the Gulf of Mexico it is already being described as this years’ Katrina.
  • Weather Gods And Ancient Meteorology
    Fascinated by the weather and heavenly bodies, the first human societies relied on mythology for an explanation of the climate rather than science.
  • Tornadoes - Why We Love These Killers
    If you were to see a tornado, what would you do? Run for cover? Stop and stare? Grab the camera and start filming? Why are we so fascinated by these deadly killers?
  • Hurricane Vince - The Worlds Most Unusual Storm
    Hurricane Vince made landfall on October 11th 2005. However, this landfall was on mainland Europe, making it the first ever tropical cyclone to achieve such a feat!
  • Wireless Thermometers – Mourning Two Pins And A Magnet
    This article describes how the introduction of wireless thermometers stopped me from crushing and destroying all previous attempts I had made with thermometers.
  • Another Striking Sign of Global Warming
    As the world continues to heat up the impacts are becoming more obvious. This week a huge sheet of ice has broken away from an ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic.
  • Let It Rain, But Not On The Olympics
    For years man has tried to alter the weather in his favour. There is little doubt that science has the capabilities, but should we really go there?
  • The Power of a Carbon Bomb
    Our planet is under threat from a possible “carbon bomb”. This articles describes what this phenomenon is, its consequences and if it can be stopped
  • Our Wobbling Earth, Wobbled by The World's Weather
    The world's weather can have an enormous impact on a local scale. From a tornado to a hurricane, or an ice storm to a drought, the weather takes its toll. But did you know that the world's weather is capable of making the whole earth move?
  • Tropical Storm Cristobal
    It's hurricane season, and those in the path of these huge storms keep a wary eye out to the east to see what may be heading their way.
  • Wonderful Weather, Except Here Of Course
    Why is it that so much of the time weather is never quite right? Too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry? Maybe the perfect weather simply does not exist.
  • Hurricane Bertha, a Prophetess of Doom?
    The first named storm of the hurricane season is trundling west across the Atlantic. Are we in for a big storm season?
  • Red Sky At Night
    One Mississippi, two Mississippi.....weather folklore and sayings have become part of our everyday lives, but where did some of these saying originate?
  • The Flood of The Century
    In April and May of 1997 the Red River, bordering North Dakota and Minnesota flooded across the Red River valley causing $3.5 Billion worth of damage, making it one of the most expensive natural disasters ever.
  • Violent Winds of the World
    Although global air flow patterns give rise to the principle winds of the earth, there are smaller and often severe local winds that occur across the world. Some of the more famous are described in this article.
  • The Ice Age Cometh
    There is no doubt that the world is warming up, whatever the causes. However the big question is what impact will this have on global climate? Various computer models are now predicting a new ice age. Caused by global warming? An oxymoron surely? Well maybe not.

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