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Do you like your weather wet or dry?

When air meets mountains it has nowhere to go but up.Rain is abundant where air rises, lightest where air sinks. The rainiest places are usually found on the windward side of mountains, and the driest on the leeward slopes. The most extreme rainfall in the united States is on HawaiiÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Mount ...

In 1900, the United States Weather Bureau was moved from the War Department to the Department of Agriculture. The first radio weather broadcast was from the University of St. Louis on April, 27, 1921. In 1941, Wooly Lamb began experimenting with television weather reporting in New York for ...

The science of weather forecasting

TodayÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ four-day rain outlook is as accurate as the one day forecast 30 years ago. The remnants of tropical storm Gordon were forecast to bring heavy rain to Southwestern Pennsylvania and the forecast was spot on with 4 to 7 inches of rain falling across a wide area and causing widespread ...

A place everyone should visit

One of my favorite places besides the mountains of Southwestern Pennsylvania is Grand Canyon National Park. It truly is majestic and once visited it keeps drawing you back for more. Since that first visit of the South Rim with its hiking trails, bighorn sheep and sweeping vistas of rocks and ...

A changing of the seasons

A late summer snowfall blanketed the mountains of Montana and Wyoming with several inches of snow this past week. While it did create a few problems for visitors to Yellowstone, Glacier and the Tetons, the snow helped to dampen the smoke from recent forest fires.The cooler air associated with ...

The first time it rained

Scientists like to tell us our world began about 14 billion years ago. Some people think differently, however. Since this is a scientific article, we will go with the older version.After billions of years, a new star was born which became our sun. Gas, dust and flaming rocks were flying around ...