Word: rain
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...ways. Supercells typically form in spring as warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico flows north and pushes through colder, dryer layers of air. As it rises, this upwelling of warm air begins to cool, and the moisture it contains condenses first into cloud droplets and then into rain. At that point, the air--now denser because it is colder--starts to sink. But at the same time, the process of condensation that created the rain releases so much latent heat that the air around it warms up again and retains its lift...
Only in the playoffs would one expect a game like this to have it all--heroes, dramatic rallies, broken records and dazzling highlights--all despite the pounding rain and the jitters of playing in the NCAA tournament...
...that there have been times when the divine plan for him was hard to divine. "If I had understood the messages people were sending me on the day I was born," he says, "I might just have crawled right back in where I'd come from and taken a rain check...
...raining in Sydney, Australia, and Franklin Graham is nervous. Once he might have slugged back a Scotch; now a diet Coke will have to do. It is always tough being a stand-in, and worse still if you're substituting for a legend. In fact, when illness forced his father out of this series of revival meetings, the organizing committee in Sydney simply dissolved itself. Ultimately another group decided to take a chance on Franklin but moved the revival from a downtown venue that could have held 50,000 people to an open, grass amphitheater--no seats, just turf--with...
...more fires in the Southwest, they won't have the ability to fight them all. There has only been 0.38 inches of rainfall since the first of the year, and the moisture content of debris on the forest floor is less than half what it usually is." Significant rain doesn't usually reach the region until July or August. So far, U.S. Forest Service officials have been able to contain the blazes before they caused extensive damage to private property. Last week's 16,000-acre Dome Fire threatened the Los Alamos National Laboratories, where much of the early research...