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Upside-Down Rainbows
Until yesterday, I didn't know this phenomenon was possible: upside-down rainbows. The Telegraph has a photo of one caught on camera by Dr. Jacqueline Mitton near Cambridge last week.SF Gate has a picture of another one, from a year ago, and offers this explanation:
When sunlight hits the hexagonal ice crystals that sometimes create a thin haze high in the sky, each crystal bends the light and breaks it into all the colors of the rainbow. Combined, the millions of crystals form what atmospheric scientists call a circumzenithal arc, but the band of colors in the arc is reversed from the way it appears in regular rainbows.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Sep 20, 2008 -
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Category: Nature, Weather
Smoke on the Water
I should have known it would be. I had already read this news about how weekends attract bad weather.
WEEKEND WEATHER REALLY IS WORSE
The most comprehensive weather study ever has confirmed what we all suspected - the weather really is worse at weekends.
Meteorologists at the University of Karlsruhe evaluated 6.3 million pieces of climate data from across Europe between 1991 and 2005.
Their conclusion: On weekends the weather is worse than on weekdays.
Q: Why does the smoke from a campfire seem to blow into your face no matter where you sit or how many times you change position around the fire?
A: Your body blocks the flow of fresh air drawn to the flames. You are then creating a low air pressure area with your body and the warm smoke moves toward the lowest air pressure. With no wind, no matter where you sit in relation to the fire, the smoke will be drawn toward you.
Sometimes you just can't win....
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 14, 2008 -
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Category: Entertainment, Family, Food, Science, Weather
Follies of the Mad Men #23
Surely nothing better evokes the confusing and guilty sensations associated with a "what's my name, and where did I leave my panties?" lost weekend better than a forgotten drink high atop a pole you shimmied up while looking for the bluebird of happiness.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 04, 2008 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Inebriation and Intoxicants, Corrections, 1940s, Weather
Hurricane Fun
I joked earlier on the blog about waterspouts lifting a swimmer off to Oz.Well, yesterday down in Chuck Shepherd country it practically happened.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 20, 2008 -
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Category: Flight, Hospitals, Nature, Weather, Sports, Stupidity
Waterspouts
It's generally very pleasant living with easy access to the ocean, especially in summer.But yesterday, Rhode Island experienced some waterspouts.
A waterspout is basically when a tornado comes and sucks up swimmers and boats and brings them to Oz.
Such as in this video. But they escaped. (No flying monkeys were harmed in the filming.)
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 15, 2008 -
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Category: Boats, Nature, Weather, Regionalism
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