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Seeing the Wind

Posted: Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 @ 1:55 pm in Weather | No Comments »

You can’t actually see the wind. It’s as invisible as sound waves or thermal energy. Yet wind manifests itself in tangible, sometimes startling ways.
The other day as we walked out on the desert we heard the sound of water swirling down a manhole. Well, that’s what it sounded like. We noticed pebbles tumbling almost at […]

Chasing Rainbows

Posted: Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 @ 3:58 pm in Weather | No Comments »

A summer shower brings renewal, a cleansing of the air, the sky, and the land below. It replaces the dog days’ heat with air so brisk it snaps, and that alone makes up for the slight inconvenience of rain. But old mother nature has even more in store - as a finale - a rainbow.
The […]

Anger of the Gods

Posted: Saturday, April 15th, 2006 @ 3:13 pm in Weather | No Comments »

In Colorado a tree exploded near our motorhome; shattered bark flew in every direction. In New Mexico thunderbolts crashed down on the ridge-top hiking trail that was our only route back to camp. In Florida lightning and thunder continued for seven hours until we gave up trying to get any sleep at all that night. […]

 
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