A weather presenter on Canadian television network Global TV lost her composure when a spider crawled across the screen showing the city. Kristi Gordon ducks to escape as the much-larger-than-life critter entereds the screen just above her head.
Tag Archives: weather
When TV news hosts go to war
Today’s TV weather forecast: Forked lightning with a very chilly snap. Forget reality TV, the bitchiest television show around is not an episode of Real Housewives it’s a morning news show in Philadelphia
The Press: Classified Classic
Craggy, weather-beaten Claude L. Fallwell had lived a full life, and he wanted a full epitaph
Feds’ Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program
After her husband left her, Jennifer Santana lost her job.
Another Ice Age?
In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries.
The Science of Wildfires
HOW THEY START… Wildfires result from a confluence of fuel, dryness and some kind of trigger.
Museums selected to display space shuttles
Nobody does anniversaries quite like NASA. Launches and landings and all of the other things spacecraft do may be governed by nonnegotiable variables like orbital mechanics and weather, but in NASA’s world, they seem to take a lot of fortuitous calendrical bounces too
Books: In Search of Rubber Ducks
In January 1992, deep within a tempestuous stretch of subarctic sea, a Taiwan ship on its way from Hong Kong to the U.S. was beset by foul weather and lost several steel containers overboard
Climate change: Can we even do it? Should we even try?
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has long been known worldwide for its engineering programs, and a symposium at MIT this week will draw scientists from around the globe to focus on a hot facet of the field — climate engineering.
After many delays, NASA launches rocket
NASA launched its Ares I-X rocket Wednesday, after multiple delays over two days because of bad weather.