There's been a lot of excellent analysis of the mysterious storm-free first half of this year's hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean and, more generally, tropical weather trends in the context of human-driven global warming.
Anyone with an ear to recent imports like Jessie Ware and James Blake has likely heard the mysterious, quiet storm minimalism of Hannibal's other project, Rhye.
Eruptions of violence, as unavoidable and mysterious as storms, are part of the atmosphere of the book, which just won the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
But as Stan awaits the coming blow in Margaret Maron's STORM TRACK (Mysterious Press/Warner, $22.95), more ferocious squalls are brewing closer to home.
(In 1934 a luxury liner returning to New York from Cuba, the Morro Castle, caught fire in mysterious circumstances during a storm at sea; it eventually drifted to the Asbury Park shore, where it became a macabre tourist attraction).
Sometimes, however, after powerful electrical storms, these mysterious rarities are found dead on the shores.
These mysteries remain mysterious.
Over the winter, the entire patio collapsed after a storm and a mysterious flood ruined the floor.
Everywhere there are strange sights and adventures -- rhinoceroses in the reeds, Chinese junks doomed by a black-winged storm, fierce birds and mysterious fish.
Lara manages to activate a radio tower and call for help, but the plane that answers the call is struck by a freak storm, and Lara hears a mysterious voice saying "No one leaves" in Japanese.
Then Alan and Katherine Garrison, self-taught experts in family physics, use mysterious and largely invisible techniques to calm the storm.
