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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 [...]

A strange piece of news caught our eye recently, in which USA Today informed us of four newly retired hurricane names. We had no idea this was done; that hurricane names, like athlete’s numbers, were retired after especially memorable performances. We won’t go into the strange specifics of anthropomorphizing massive global waeather systems, but merely [...]