Weather
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I saw this headline on Google News yesterday: Huge New Holes In Siberia Have Scientists Calling For Urgent Investigation Of The Mysterious Craters and immediately thought "Someone will blame it on global warming/climate change." I clicked on it and read the story, at the Huffington Post. Sure enough: The leading theory is that the holes
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It's a bright sunny day, the temperature is a few degrees above freezing, and I'm hearing something I've only heard a few times in my life. The sound of the thaw: water running off the eaves, dripping from the trees, and here and there a more substantial sound as a bit of ice crumbles and
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I know this is nothing by the standards of any part of the country north of Tennessee or so, but it's hard to communicate just how freakish it is here. Normally the most severe wintry weather we get is a few days here and there slightly below freezing. Once, ca. 1996, there was enough snow
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It's even cold here–I mean, not what natives consider cold, but something that people who live in actual cold places might admit is somewhat chilly, if they were out in the wind and not wearing heavy parkas and such. But don't you love that phrase "polar vortex"?
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Here's a strange, amazing, and sad story of a Russian Old Believer family who fled from the Communists into not just any old wilderness but Siberia. And survived. Read about it at the Smithsonian's web site. I don't have a post category into which this fits very well. You can read about the Old Believers here.
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That was the comment my wife included when she sent me this link. And it is. It's an animated map of the current winds in the continental U.S.
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Yes, as I was saying, our racial problems are serious. But this scene is a nice reminder of how much things have improved. It could not have taken place fifty years ago. http://vp.mgnetwork.net/viewer.swf?u=98ca54682581102faba2001ec92a4a0d&z=KRG&embed_player=1 Alan Sealls is a local meteorologist whom I call the prince of weathermen–he's tremendously knowledgeable, and has this infectious enthusiasm for the subject.
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My front yard, as of about fifteen minutes ago; the haze in the middle is a result of the lens fogging up when brought from the air-conditioned house to the very humid outdoors: So Isaac, having barely attained hurricane strength, has bypassed us and headed for Louisiana instead. Unless something changes drastically, this will prove
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Waiting for the Hurricane This will be brief, as I've been busy most of the day making preparations for Tropical Storm Isaac, which is expected to be Hurricane Isaac by the time it makes landfall somewhere along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The tropics have been pretty quiet since Hurricane Katrina in
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It indicates the approximate location of my house. You will observe that two of the pink-purple lines meet there. I hope this isn't going to be a bad hurricane season. It's been very quiet since Katrina.
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