Small dust devils sometimes form when winds flow over hot deserts, and wildfires can also produce climbing vortices of flame and ash called fire whirls. Scientists have even observed dust devils on Mars and spotted solar tornadoes whipping out from the sun. In a tornado, the same sort of ...
Permitless means dangerous This story on banning guns at the State Fair of Texas states that more than 70 state lawmakers have urged the fair’s board of directors to rescind the ban as a safety measure, though three people were injured at the fair in a ...
and her new true crime book is just as beautiful and devastating.Hell in the Heartlanddigs deep into a case involving a trailer fire, two missing best
it follows two college freshmen—Paul and Julian—who meet and soon develop a deep, dangerous obsession with one another. I don’t know what happens next, but I do know what happens in the second part of the line fromRomeo and Julietquoted in the title: “These...
In 2018, a spinning tower of fire crossed a river, worsening the Carr fire in Northern California. This “tornado-strength fire-generated vortex,”—also called a firenado, fire whirl, fire devil, or a fire twister—was a combination of hot weather, unstable winds, and a cloud topped with...