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- Gulf dodges first hurricane bullet of oil spill season: For a few days there it looked like the cry throughout the Gulf of Mexico and adjacent states was “batten down the hatches” for Hurricane Alex. Fortunately, the storm turned [...]
- Thinking I am brontophobic — no, it has nothing to do with literature: I think I’ve found a label for one of the problems I’ve developed in recent years: brontophobia, a fear of lighting and thunderstorms. It’s also called astraphobia, keraunophobia, or tonitrophobia. [...]
- El Nino effects on weather downright confusing to me: I don’t know about you, but the weather effects of what’s come to be known as “El Nino” are downright confusing to me. I just read that the current El [...]
- Does harsh winter disprove reality of ‘global warming’?: I think some otherwise intelligent people are seriously asking whether this year’s harsh winter might actually disprove the reality of so-called global warming. I mean, with a foot of snow [...]
- Storm named Fay really dumped on Florida, didn’t she?: I suppose it’s been a pretty good year for Orlando vacations, despite tropical storms and hurricane threats. I guess if you live in Florida or visit their much, you get [...]
- Storms, flooding hit home in a small way for my wife and me: If you live there, you really need no travel guides or GPS equipment, or road maps, or anything else to help you find “Tornado Alley,” that part of the southern [...]
- Ah, once again — the beauties of winter life in the Missouri Ozarks: Welcome to southwest Missouri, where I live. We’ve had a touch of snow here. We’ve had a lot of rain, a few tornadoes, and a whole many, many tons of [...]
- Everybody’s talking about the weather but nobody’s doing anything about it: Since I was a teenager, I’ve never really trusted the weathermen/women when it comes to forecasting. My wariness began when I saw one of the early space launches canceled because [...]
- Another winter, another ice storm — winter in the freezing zone: You call it Interstate 44; I call it the freezing zone. This is the 29th winter my family and I have lived in the southwest Missouri Ozarks, in a city [...]