Deborah Byrd, of the ever-changing EarthSky radio program and science site, posts a wonderful animation of what the current storm hitting California looks like from moderately high pressure. Technical difficulties with the gif force me to post a still from the animation, but still you can see the rotation of the winds up against theContinue reading “What it takes to move an atmospheric river: two images”
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Speaking of heartbreaking: For the child…and the wind
From a collection of poems about the end of the world, in the inevitable New York Times: LEAVE A MESSAGE When the wind died, there was a moment of silence for the wind. When the maple tree died, there was always a place to find winter in its branches. When the roses died, I respectedContinue reading “Speaking of heartbreaking: For the child…and the wind”
Sunday Morning on the Planet: The Problem of Describing Trees
The aspen glitters in the windand that delights us. The leaf flutters, turning.Because that motion in the heat of AugustProtects its cells from dryingout. Likewise the leafof the cottonwood. The gene pool threw up a wobbly steamAnd the tree danced. No.The tree capitalized.No. There are limits to saying,In language, what the tree did. It isContinue reading “Sunday Morning on the Planet: The Problem of Describing Trees”
Kit Stolz 