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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...
...humdrum battles with the elements. (Better bundle up--and take that umbrella!) Perhaps, too, it makes us a little more comfortable in our own good sense. Those crazy storm chasers may get some neat pictures, but at least we know enough to come in out of the rain...
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...