Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Monday, March 23, 2015

Mont et mer

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When I went to France in 1999 with my friend Cris, we went out of our way to see the famed Mont Saint-Michel , driving up the causeway fro...
Sunday, March 1, 2015

Winter waves

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Photographer Jonathan Nimerfroh captured evidence of just how brutal the winter in Massachusetts has been. Waves off the coast of the isl...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Sand sculpture

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What is has taken millions of years to do to sandstone, the wind has done on a miniature scale to frozen sand in a matter of days and we...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Primordial precipitation

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They may not look it, but these are the most remarkable trace fossils I have learned of yet. They are the fossilized craters of raindro...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

Ice pancakes

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It's another instance of food metaphor . Dinner plate-sized rounds of ice floating down a river in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Biologist...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Gravity potato

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I had no idea there was something called the Potsdam geoid – a.k.a. the "gravity potato" – let alone news about it. It has been ...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

Cloud-filled canyon

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For the second time in two years, visitors to the Grand Canyon in Flagstaff, Arizona, U.S., have been treated to a rare and strange weathe...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Build a better fogtrap?

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In remote areas regions of countries including Chile, Peru, Guatemala, Namibia, Eritrea, Oman, and Nepal, fog collection is a relatively ...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

Whether weather worshipped

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A massive 3,300-year-old cult complex has been uncovered at the Tel Burna site in Israel. The courtyard alone measures 52' x 52' ...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Round rainbow

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Colin Leonhardt of Birdseye View Photography was in a helicopter flying between the setting sun and a downpour when he captured a phenom...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Barometric bloodsuckers

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On display at the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace in London in 1851 was a strange-looking device ( REPLICA ABOVE ). It was invented...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Hay there

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No, this is not a cloud photo taken through a dirty lens. It shows huge clumps of dry grass falling from the sky last weekend in parts of ...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Mongol monsoons

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Often my posts about past weather patterns are based on evidence from prehistoric times that lends further credence to global climate cha...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Monet moment

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During a 3-week winter trip to the Normandy coast in the 19th c., French impressionist Claude Monet painted Étretat: Sunset ( IMAGE ABOV...
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Saturday, January 11, 2014

Beach balls

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What we have here are large ice boulders, some weighing as much as 75 lbs (34 kg), that form periodically on Lake Michigan. U.S. Park Rang...
Saturday, December 14, 2013

Cold camels

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On Friday, it snowed in Cairo for the first time in 112 years! Other areas of the Middle East were also blanketed (or bucketed) with a ra...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Aurora from above

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We've seen beautiful photographs, like those above, of the Northern and Southern lights . And some of us have seen in person the Auror...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Water, world

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In April, a video clip from 2005 was circulating in which Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, chairman of Nestlé, claimed that water should not be un...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Ice twice

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You may have seen footage on the news lately of lake ice being pushed into homes, but – like me – you may not have realized that there wer...
Monday, February 18, 2013

Arctic methane

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The beauty of this photograph belies the fact that it represents a disaster waiting to happen. Large amounts of methane , a greenhouse gas...