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Answers: heating, cooling degree days
Q: Several years ago, you wrote a short article for USA TODAY about heating degree days. I have depended on that article, and its links, to monitor the heating and cooling degree days in my area. Now, I cannot access this article any longer through a USA TODAY search and I'd really like to have access to it. I would... »
Answers: Hurricane rainbands
Q: Cross-cut figures of hurricanes show a structure like a jelly roll turned on end and sliced through the middle. Are these rings all connected in a continuous spiral or are they multiple rings? (I suspect they are continuous.) Also, how do they develop in the evolution of a hurricane? That is, why isn't the hurricane just a big homogeneous storm?... »
A companionable guide to climate change
Until I watched the preview DVD of "Earth: The Operators' Manual" a couple of weeks ago, I had never viewed a television program about climate change that I particularly liked. PBS stations began airing the show on April 10--with some showing it a few days later. More information on the show and when it's scheduled to run is available online. While other climate... »
Photos of the Shuttle Discovery launch
The photos in this gallery snow the first two minutes of the Feb. 24, 2011 Space Shuttle Discovery launch. They were taken using a 300 mm lens from the media area at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., which is approximately three miles from the launch pad. Note that from photo 6 to photo 9 in the gallery Discovery rolls so that the orbiter... »
