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...ever believe it when someone tells you, “Oh, Las Vegas has dry heat, you’ll be alright.” They’re either clueless or lying. I left Logan airport early one morning in late May, where the crisp 55-degree weather was perfectly appropriate for a sport coat, dress shirt and loafers. I was, after all, being met in Nevada by a staffer of Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.), for whose re-election campaign I’m working this summer. As any go-getter knows, first impressions mean everything...
...news is not all bad: some fungi, including those that are wiping out frogs in Australia and Central America, are happier in cool weather. But on balance, says Ostfeld, "a warmer world will be a sicker world." --A.D. and M.D.L...
Part of the danger comes from pests that carry such illnesses as malaria, dengue fever and Lyme disease, which are expanding their ranges from the tropics toward the poles or to higher altitudes. Parasites like warm weather too: a tiny protozoan that breeds between the abdominal scales of monarch butterflies is just one example...
...Weather Channel: The Improbable Rise of a Media Phenomenon, by Frank Batten, with Jeffrey Cruikshank If you can sell the weather, you can sell anything...
...after the seventh or eighth tumbler of rice whiskey that the tears began to flow. Nai Tong, the weather-beaten, gold-toothed village chief, blinked hard, splashed the whiskey jug around and raised his glass. "Welcome to Sipsongpanna, daughter of the Dai. Welcome home." It was a magic moment and the culmination of an emotion-charged journey for my wife, Sawitree. She is the first of her large northern Thai family to travel back to the land of her ancestors, the Dai people, who inhabit the southern tip of China's Yunnan province. The region is now known as Xishuangbanna...