For the last two months, the Steps investigators met every morning at the National Weather Service center in Goodland and pored over weather data, looking for the storms.
The crew and expedition leaders had been poring over weather and ice forecasts and speaking with maritime rescue agencies and other ships' captains since the early morning.
I always laugh at the weather reports because Bill Murray, in Groundhogs Day was a weatherman, and what they report is the same weather over and over again.
After factoring out such variables as wild pitches and fatigue, they superimposed game stats over weather data and found that batters had a 27percentt chance of being hit by a retaliatory pitch when the temperature topped 90 degrees, but only a 22percentt chance when temperatures dipped into the 50s.
To do this, data from several research sources on Brazilian soils were used, noting that climate, geological, geomorphological, and biological peculiarities cause different results not only from one country or continent to another but also between micro regions and even over weathering profiles close to one another.
They were earnest about their mission, and by gum, you found yourself, over and over, buying marble peaches and weathered wood dough bowls.
Relatively narrow bands that circle the globe at altitudes of up to 10 kilometers, they can move at more than 320 kilometers an hour and exert tremendous influence over weather conditions at ground level.
As pollution, extreme weather, and over-population threaten the viability of large, outdoor farms, a startup called Bowery Farming Inc. has raised $7.5 million in total venture funding to grow food indoors, even in the middle of a city.
Production was briefly halted at times over weather problems.
Darn it, I thought no one knew I had a super power over weather.
