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What is the sky without little fluffy clouds? Boring if you ask me. A cloudless plain sky is like a garden without flowers. Clouds can generally be classified by appearance – cumulus (heap), stratus (layer), cirrus (curl), nimbus (rain) – or by height of cloud base – high level, mid level, low level clouds and [...]
Posted by Timeea on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Nature, Science · Tagged Accessory cloud, amateur astronomer, Arcus cloud, Atmospheric sciences, Cirrus Radiatus, Cloud, Cloud Appreciation Society, Cumulonimbus cloud, Hermann von Helmholtz, Jacques Cousteau, Lenticular cloud, Mammatus cloud, Meteorology, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Center for Atmospheric Research for Wired.com, Noctilucent cloud, Patrick Chuang, Polar stratospheric cloud, scientist, Stratocumulus cloud, Undulatus asperatus, World Meteorological Organization
Did you know that each winter one septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) of snow crystals drop from the sky and that it takes about a million little droplets to make one snowflake? As common as it might seem at first glance, snow is actually a very complex type of precipitation. If you are wondering which is the world’s [...]
Posted by Timeea on Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 12:01 am
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You’ve probably heard or read the word blizzard a few times in the last few weeks. Just recently, the Northern states and East coast were hit with a blizzard, as well were numerous Midwestern states. Though many believe that a blizzard just involves a heavy amounts of snow, this is not the case by definition. [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Monday, February 1, 2010 at 6:33 am
Filed under History, Nature, Photos · Tagged Armistice Day Blizzard, Atmospheric sciences, blizzard of 1999, blizzards, Children's Blizzard, cold, death, Great Appalachian Storm, great blizzard of 1899, Great Lakes Blizzard, great storm of 1975, Ice storms, Knickerbocker Storm, Lake-effect snow, Meteorology, natural disaster, Natural disasters, Nature, Nor'easter, Schoolhouse Blizzard, snow, snow storms, Storm, storms, The Great Blizzard of 1888, The Great Lakes Storm, The Storm of the Century, top 10 blizzards, tornado, Tornadoes, weather, winter, worst blizzards
