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...PRAYING FOR RAIN...
...know you?re in trouble as a governor when you have to pray for rain - but without the lightning - in order to ease your budget crunch. Drought-parched Montana is being ravaged by fires and Republican Gov. Judy Martz has enraged social activists and Democratic legislators by diverting money they believe should be spent on welfare programs to fight the blaze...
...preventing degradation of the base areas around climbing cliffs and minimizing interference with wildlife, such as nesting raptors. Even the chalk that climbers put on their hands to get a better grip can be a problem. Often it leaves a smudgy trail on rock faces, resistant even to rain...
...heat can do funny things with weather. Hot city air, like hot air anywhere else, rises--even more so because of the turbulence caused by tall buildings. When that air is damp enough and collides with colder layers above it, water can condense out as a sudden burst of rain, especially if there are few frontal systems to disrupt the layers, as in summer. In a spot storm above a city or just downwind of it, it's likely that nature alone isn't behind the downpour...
...ground-based temperature readings to determine how widespread this phenomenon is. This spring researchers got a surprise when they turned their attention to Houston. Because it's near a coast and sea breezes tend to cool and disperse hot air, Houston was thought to be comparatively safe from homemade rain. Now it appears that the opposite may be true. "The sea breeze may exacerbate the rainfall," says research meteorologist Marshall Shepherd of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The warm air and sea air collide, he explains, and "move straight up like the front ends of two cars that...