It’s a dolphin! (via seantyler)
Rising Slowly
“ The founder of the Weather Channel wants to sue Al Gore for fraud, hoping a legal debate will settle the global-warming debate once and for all.
// from Fox News, so take with appropriate bucket of salt
How we name storms
// “You know, the Germans are clever people. Not only did they invent the Fahrenheit scale, diesel engine and aspirin, but they also came up with a system of naming storm systems across Europe.”
Weather Monitoring System
// blimey this is really nicely done. I can’t believe I’ve not seen it before. Maybe I have and I’ve just forgotten. That’s me all over, that is.
Stormy weather - Waves breaking at Freshwater Bay (via s0ulsurfing)
The World's Fair : British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment: Between the Scientific and Traditional with Historian Jan Golinski
// This looks really interesting: “The book explores beliefs about weather and climate in eighteenth-century Britain and its colonies … People began to study the weather in a way that we recognize as more “scientific,” but traditional attitudes also survived, even what we might call “superstitions.”