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Today is Umbrella Day! As New York braces for the second Snowpocalypse of the season, we think affectionately on how much we prefer snow to rain, whether still or windy. When the air is really moving and the cats and dogs are falling, we feel very miserable. The only thing that makes it bearable is [...]

A few weeks ago we got caught in an amazing storm at the beach, and we watched from the relative safety of a gazebo as clouds rolled in off the water towards us packing torrential rains and some of the most spectacular lightning we’ve ever seen. We were much too mesmerized by the spectacle of [...]

Yesterday a huge typhoon hit Taiwan and China, and it’s still too early to accurately measure the death toll and damage, but estimates are grim. To get some appreciation of what it might have been like – and what any number of other massively destructive weather systems might be like – we’ve weathered The 10 [...]