Climatically speaking, it is customary to think ofthe beginning of summeras an important season when the temperature rises significantly, thunderstorms increase and crops enter their peak season. At the beginning of summer, everything flourishes. It is written in ancient books that ‘On the day of...
At the same time, city heat warms the surface air, making it more unstable, which enhances rising air motions, which, in turn, aids in forming clouds and thunderstorms. This process helps explain why [#highlight10]both[/highlight10] tend to be more frequent over cities. [#paragraph6]On...
10. Thunderstorms Some dogs are more clingy when they are uncomfortable about something, and one common cause offeeling uncomfortableis a thunderstorm. If your dog is usually a little more independent but is glued to you during storms, you’ve probably noticed the pattern. However, some dogs be...
Thunderstorms in Florida are frequent and intense. The Atlantic hurricane season lasts six months, from June 1 until November 30, and peaks between mid-August and late October. Since 1850, all of Florida’s coastline has been impacted by at least one hurricane....
The pottery indicates human occupation of the dune, and the fulgurites (which are formed by lightning strikes on sand dunes) indicate the occurrence of thunderstorms. Together these features indicate wetter conditions when the dune was likely to have been stabilized by vegetation. The timing and ...
A NASA spacecraft discovers antimatter bursts released by thunderstorms. ... And now scientists have discovered that these flashes also create the asymmetrical opposite of matter—antimatter. NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was designed to monitor gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light...
Ancient Greeks believed the actions of the gods had a major impact on the world. They explained thunderstorms by saying Zeus was angry, they claimed gods shot them with arrows to make them fall in love, and they even blamed wars on the antics of the gods. They paid homage to the gods ...
You have to be a bit lucky to capture such photos: you have to happen to catch both birds at the same time. When you usually catch five or fewer birds at a time, as we do, the chances that any two of them will be an informative comparison becomes small. Each of these pair photos...
The sparks occur because of a little-known fact: all the world is a gigantic electrostatic generator. There is a flow of charge going on vertically everwhere on earth. Thunderstorms pump negative charge downwards, and the charge filters upwards everywhere else on earth. Depending on the height ...
“teeny, tiny” alteration in the weather. Small-scale events, like thunderstorms, materialized in different places within hours. After six days, big weather patterns some 100 miles to 1,000 miles across (like high and low pressure systems) appeared in different places. By a little over two ...