Yesterday afternoon smoke from the Gladiator-Crown King and Tonto fires began spreading toward Catalina. Here are a couple of photos taken toward evening. The first photo is of the Gladiator fire plume and the second has the Tonto fire plume on the horizon on the right. You can see a bit of separation between the… Continue reading Fires and smoke
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Story time: They said they couldn’t exist, but we found some anyway (extra giant raindrops)
While waiting for the chance of rain mid-week next week, I thought I would tell another science story… How me and Doc Hobbs got into the Guinness Book of World Records Rain drops bigger than about 5 mm in diameter (only about 0.2 inches) are thought, mainly through lab experiments, to break up into smaller drops… Continue reading Story time: They said they couldn’t exist, but we found some anyway (extra giant raindrops)