A very bad natural disaster is a drought. A drought is when there is a lack of precipitation (i.e. rain, snow, hail, sleet) over an extended period of time. The length of time is usually a season or more with the result being a water shortage for plants, people or animals.
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This article explains Dew. The wetness on a lawn in the morning is dew. Looking at the dew, you often wonder if there was rain overnight.
Tropical Cyclone What is it? In simple words, a tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system that produces heavy rain with strong wind and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms. Usually, these are formed over warm ocean waters at low latitudes. A cyclone is referred to by many different names depending on its location and Read More
Rainbow, R.O.Y.G.B.I.V. Why it happens The rainbow, which in Latin is arcus pluvius, means “rainy arch” and is a meteorological phenomenon caused by reflection, refraction, and dispersion of light in water droplets in the atmosphere which results in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It was believed that the earliest occurrence of the Read More
A Typhoon is an intense cyclone that forms in the western part of the North Pacific Ocean between 180° and 100°E Longitude. The North Pacific Ocean is known as the Northwestern Pacific Basin which is the most active tropical cyclone basin on Earth. A typhoon is only different from a cyclone and hurricane based on Read More