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Weather Words: 'Harvest'

"Harvest" comes from an Old English word of Germanic origin, hærfest, which in some senses means “picking, plucking” (as one ...
Are you a fall person or an autumn person? When the leaves start to turn and the air gets crisp, you might hear both “fall” and “autumn” used to describe the season, but which one is correct? They can ...
A “fish storm” is a tropical system that stays out to sea but can still impact land by generating large swells, rip currents ...
Every named tropical system has to start somewhere, and for many, the early days before a name is even given, it starts as an “invest.” Short for “investigation,” an invest is a designated zone in the ...
As days grow shorter and temperatures cool, trees prepare for winter by shutting down food production. This process is called leaf senescence, the aging and eventual death of leaves. Chlorophyll, the ...