Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
Meteorological spring begins on March 1st, and you can feel it in the air. After 1.25” of rain on 2/27 and an incredible 2.97” on 2/28, the weather since Tuesday 3/1 has been tranquil, with partly cloudy skies interspersed with brilliant bursts of springtime sunshine. I was walking around the International District yesterday, and when […]
In a blow to professional meteorologists, a recent poll of 2,000 Americans showed that 58% of U.S. adults believe that Punxsutawney Phil seeing his shadow is an accurate indicator of whether there will be winter, with one quarter of Americans “strongly agreeing” with this statement. Unfortunately for America’s favorite groundhog, his forecasts verify even worse […]
For our high school senior portraits in the Garfield High School yearbook, we had the option of putting a quote next to our name. I quoted the great John Ruskin, a multi-talented, leading English art critic of the Victorian Era. Ruskin wrote the following; I could only include the bolded portion due to space constraints […]
