A Dictionary of Weather
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Storm Dunlop
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By Storm Dunlop Rainfall in excessive quantities or in an unusual location may give rise to flooding ' as we have seen only too frequently in Britain in the past year ' but quite apart from such problems and its many other uses, water is absolutely essential for agriculture ' particularly in tropical countries where the onset and progress of the monsoon is anxiously awaited, and in regions where agriculture is utterly dependent on precipitation brought by the less predictable tropical cyclones ' known as 'cyclones', 'hurricanes', or 'typhoons', depending on their location around the world.
Posted on March 22, 2013
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By Storm Dunlop We are all used to blaming things (rightly or wrongly) on the weather, but now it seems that this tendency has been extended to space weather. Space weather, for those who are uncertain, describes the effects that flares and other events on the Sun produce on Earth. Consult many of the sites on the World Wide Web that are devoted to events on a particular day in history, and you will be told that on 16 August 1989, a geomagnetic storm caused the Toronto Stock Exchange to crash.
Posted on January 7, 2013
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By Storm Dunlop World Meteorology Day marks a highly successful collaboration under the World Meteorological Organization, involving every country, large or small, rich or poor. Weather affects every single person (every living being) on the planet, but why do people feel meteorology is not for them? Why do they even find it so difficult to identify different types of cloud? Or at least they claim that it is difficult. The average person, it would seem, looks at the sky and simply thinks 'clouds'. (Just as they look at the night sky and think nothing more than 'stars').
Posted on March 23, 2012
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