weather

Geomedicine
The momentary conditions of the atmosphere.

Six main components
Temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness.

Medspeak-UK
See Health forecasting.

Vox populi
verb To bear through an unpleasant time or activity (i.e., to weather through the final semester).

weather

Vox populi That which people talk about when everything else is taboo

Weather US record-holders–Natl Weather Serv

Coldest Average temperature–36.4ºF–Intl Falls, MN

Warmest–77.7ºF–Key West, FL

Driest–2.65 inches–Yuma, AZ

Wettest–104.5 inches rainfall–Quillayute, WA

Cloudiest–242 cloudy days–Quillayute, WA

Snowiest–243.2 inches of snow–Blue Canyon, CA

Sunniest–348 sunny days–Yuma, AZ

Windiest–15.4 mph–Blue Hill, MA

Note: For international figures, visit Worldatlas.com/geoquiz/the list.htm

Patient discussion about weather

Q. can places with a very different weather make you allergic to something you werent allergic to before? my sister just went to England and she doesn't stop sneezing. We all thought she cought a cold but it's been like 8 days now and her eyes are teary and a she just got a small rash on her right arm. are these all even related? I guess we're an allergic family...

A. but how can you actually tell what the allergy is caused by? I mean- there are so many new things in her area now- it can be anything...

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The Pacific weathervane scallop (Patinopecten caurinus Gould 1850) is distributed along the west coast of North America from Point Reyes, CA, to the Bering Sea, AK (Foster 1991).

Quality of weathervane scallops (Patinopecten caurinus) from eastern and western Gulf of Alaska

In went the eyepiece that magnified 15x, and I aimed the scope out the window at a weathervane. Was this for real?!

Celestron FirstScope

In Canada they include: bag of wind, scuzzball, blatherskite, a trained seal, jerk, pig and, bizarrely, a weathervane.

MPs should give a four X about their language

Her commentary about what this means personally and as a weathervane of the industry was insightful and distressing.

Layoff blues

The new logo and packs are simple, fresh and contemporary with the turkey weathervane representing the company's specialism in turkey farming.

Bernard Matthews unveils new products

This depicts an 80 ft-high tower with a solid circular stone base, octagonal stone middle section, open, wooden gallery, glass lantern and a weathervane supported by enormous wrought-iron brackets.

New light on Eddystone: Alison Barnes reveals a new discovery about the Eddystone lighthouse: the first of its kind to be built on rocks in the sea

Many are adapted from pieces originally disseminated on Weathervane, RFF's acclaimed web site on global climate change.

Climate Change Economics and Policy: An RFF Anthology

Area merchants include The Gap, Gap Kids, Lindt Chocolate, Weathervane Hill, Loehmanns, CVS and many others.

GVA store exclusive

So now the image of the stick-figure-like insect adorns everything including the company letterhead and promotional brochure, the outside of the office building and the weathervane on top of Costello's house.

Careful handling: Costello Dismantling Co., Middleboro, Mass., goes against the wrecking ball grain

Valencia--the much-underrated third city of Spain--is full of remarkable buildings, from the medieval silk exchange with its tall twisted columns to the flamboyant food market with its green parrot weathervane, and Calatrava's gargantuan City of Arts and Sciences.

Market forces: this historic Art Nouveau era market in Valencia has been imaginatively restored to become part of city life once more

For other finishing touches consider animal sculptures such as guinea fowl and hens or a weathervane.

YOUR GARDEN: DESIGN IT- WE'RE JUST LOOKING FOR NEW ENGLAND

* Not only is immigration policy choking off cultural exchanges with Arab and Muslim countries, it is now clogging the cultural arteries inside the United States--if the story of Canadian author Rohinton Mistry is any weathervane. Mistry's most recent novel, Family Matters, was nominated for this year's Man Booker Prize.

Book tour interrupted