The life cycle of a hurricane
By: Christyl Rivers
Hurricanes are moisture sucking whirlwinds, born at sea, and carrying a destructive wallop of whipping wind and water to dump upon coastal islands and towns. In other parts of the world, the words Typhoon and Cyclone are preferred, but over all the word hurricane, from...
By: Lenna Gonya
Winter snow storms can produce snow in any form from the wet, heavy varieties to powder fluff, or icy pellets. They can be brief squalls or major blizzard events, and, in the case of lake effect snow storms, they may produce several feet of snow...
By: Lenna Gonya
If you have ever tried to drive or ski on snow in the bright sunlight, without sunglasses, then you know just how bright white snow can be. Actually, it is the most naturally reflective substance on earth, which is the very reason it is white...
Ways you can reduce global warming
By: Christyl Rivers
The first and foremost thing anyone can do to decrease global warming is to be aware. It is easier to change a light bulb than to change a mind, but it is the mind which we must change if we are to become fully awake...
By: D. Vogt
El Nino, formally known as the El Nino Southern Oscillation, is a major five-year climate pattern over the Pacific Ocean, which affects land regions all around that ocean, including at considerable distances from the coast. It is characterized by unseasonally warm weather, whereas the opposite...
By: Can Tran
For one to understand the effects of El Nino (El Nino-Southern Oscillation) on the global weather, one has to know what it means in the first place. El Nino a.k.a. ENSO is defined as the following: a quasi-periodic climate pattern that occurs across...
Scientists puzzled: Sun rises two days early in Greenland
By: Terrence Aym
Novelist Ernest Hemingway wrote "The Sun Also Rises," and like everywhere on Earth, it also rose in the tiny fishing town of Ilulissat, Greenland on January 11, 2011. Except the sun wasn't supposed to rise there until January 13th; it appeared in the sky...
By: Kat Centeno
El Niño is a period of very high temperatures in the Pacific Ocean. El Niño literally means "the boy" referring to the child Jesus because El Niño often occurs during Christmas season. El Niño can affect weather disturbances in different regions...
By: Samantha Overmyer
During an earthquake things are falling all over and it is a major safety hazard. Most deaths in an earthquake occur by falling objects. To prevent this there are certain things to stay away from and certain things in the home that should be strapped...
By: Sue A. Sponte
A flash flood warning is given by the National Weather Service when flash flood conditions are being observed or are likely to occur. A flash flood is the rapid pooling of water, usually in areas such as basins, dry rivers and creek beds, or other...

 

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