Category Archives: weather

Warmth of Winter

January 7, 2010 – 8:51 am

My friends are reacting to the prolonged cold snap by discounting the research of thousands of scientists with the simplistic query. “Where’s global warming now?” My attempts to explain the ever-increasing swings in weather extremes are in vain. “But it’s cold and the planet is supposedly to be getting warm.” “There’s 6 billion people on […]

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Brrrrr Outside and White Too

December 18, 2009 – 11:10 pm

A storm is headed up the East Coast from Florida and is threatening heavy snowfall. Global Warming skeptics regard this anomaly as an act of God. I haven’t seen a really heavy snowfall in the 21st Century having spent most of my last years in Thailand, where there never is any snow or hi-mah. Tomorrow […]

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Clear Bangkok Sky

July 27, 2009 – 8:20 am

Bangkok in monsoon season

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Global Chill Out

June 15, 2009 – 9:13 pm

Chicago has recorded the coolest June this year. New York hasn’t seen a single day of warmth. I’ve been fighting off a lung infection for two weeks. The Western Hemisphere is cold and meteorologists are predicting another stretch of seasonally unusual weather. Anti-Global Warming critics have seized on this trend to kibosh scientific data from […]

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Lightning Strikes in Bangkok

April 17, 2009 – 5:51 pm

Songkran signals the approach of the rainy season. it’s still hot and the weather can produce epic lightning storms. My girlfriends always insisted on shutting off every electrical device in the house other than the fans. They would shiver in fear of a lightning strike. Everyone had someone who had died out in the rice […]

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