When he's on morphine, the entries in his journal — a nightly rendering of weather and work — become longer: I feel so near the great powers that it is no trouble to imagine being crushed by them, ground into powder, yet I do feel very much alive, there is no doubt of that.
Writer watched, along with Paul Sagan and Walter Isaacson, as one test subject clicked icons on the screen to call up that evening's nightly news, or weather, or sports, or in-depth accounts of President Clinton's health plan.
Then the weather improved and the nightly round of nine patrols was resumed.
Especially since the nightly news, which seems like a branch of the Weather Channel, and the Weather Channel itself, along with its online spawn weather.com, already do plenty of fear-striking: Yes, that last one was really in a slide-show sequence on weather.com.
The communities offer a warm-weather routine of golf, shuffleboard, swimming, nightly shows, lectures, pottery classes and exercise groups.
There are nightly stargazing sessions with local astronomers from 8too 9, weather permitting.
Few who live here want to contemplate the other possibility, bolstered by nightly news reports and scientific research that shows extreme weather events occurring with increasing frequency and severity as the Earth warms and its oceans rise.
A heatwave is defined by the Met Office as when the hot weather meets set thresholds for daily maximum and nightly minimum temperatures for two consecutive days.
Not even the weather, generally such a favored subject of the nightly news because it offers disaster in its most picturesquely chaotic and yet expectable form.
From 1989 to 1995, according to the Center for Media and Public Affairs, weather coverage wasn't among the top-ten topics on the nightly network news.
