We strive
to live in a world protected from the more dangerous effects of our
environment. We build huge apartment and office buildings with central
heating and air-conditioning, huge ships and aircraft that transport
people and goods across the far reaches of sea and sky, and land transportation
networks that are designed to fend off the wrath of wind, rain, and
snow. However, humankind remains, now and into the foreseeable future,
subject to the vagaries of weather in our every-day lives, commerce,
and military operations. Tornado, hurricane, flood, drought, and weather-caused
fire afflict us with distressing regularity. Yet, if we were able
to totally insulate ourselves from these affects, we would lose some
of our humanity. There is something about feeling the wind and rain
in our face, tramping through the snow on a frosty morning, and having
an abiding respect for the forces of nature that adds to the human
spirit. Join us as we tell tales of some of the most powerful of meteorological
phenomena and the men and women who observe and study them....
