Airplanes are built to withstand bolts of lightning, because strikes on planes happen now and again. But in 1999, a glider soaring above Dunstable, England, was struck by a bolt out of the blue -literally, because the pl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/23/the-power-of-positive-lightning/Boy, it sure is windy in the United States! Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg collaborated to create Wind Map, a visualization of the current wind flowing over the country right now,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/28/wind-map-of-the-united-states/Wagga Wagga, Australia was recently subjected to some serious flooding. Unfortunately, when the 9,000 human residents were evacuated, the area's spiders took over, covering the entire area with a white mist of webs....
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/08/the-town-thats-been-overcome-with-spiderwebs/This blogger is trying to find the town of Tecuci, Romania, under the snow! For some reason, the Google translation renders the town's name as Tecumseh. There are more pictures of the huge snowfall at the site Criser...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/14/buried-under-snow/This picture was taken yesterday in Mirabel, Quebec. There was some discussion of its location at reddit, where we are assured that in France, stop signs say "Stop" instead of "Arret." Link -via reddit (Image cred...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/02/stopcicle/One way to make yourself feel warmer this winter is to watch a movie in which people are even colder than you are. Unreality magazine has some suggestion you may not have considered, like the 1965 film Dr. Zhivago. This...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/27/7-great-movies-that-take-place-in-freezing-weather/When big storms hit the coast, adult seals can... ...help treat them and care for them until the cool weather recedes. Best of all, we're left with dozens of a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/15/seal-pups-rescued-from-the-storms-of-england/(YouTube link) The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra asked its fans to Tweet their tips for keeping warm in the winter. Then the chorus sang those Tweets to the tune of O Fortuna! -via the Presurfer Previously: The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/05/singing-tweets/George Merryweather was a doctor in Whitby, on the... ...t is that allows smaller animals to know when bad weather is afoot. The leeches' response was to climb --... ...more the bell rang before a storm, the worse the weather to come. The Tempest Prognosticator proved to be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/30/tempest-prognosticator/In 1959, Marine Corps pilot William Rankin was cruising at nine miles above the earth in an F-8 Crusader combat jet when something went wrong and he had to eject. Between him and the ground was a big, black storm. After...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/09/rider-on-the-storm/
