July 2008
Intermediate to advanced
1056 pages
24h 9m
English
Serious weather phenomena such as hurricanes, tropical storms, and tsunamis have names. After a pinball dance across islands, they either hit major landfall or fade away at sea. The reason they are important enough to rate a name is because we have to keep track of them, finding out how strong they are and where they’re headed. Otherwise, we wouldn’t bother giving them a name. Most of the time, there isn’t a need to name the weather—the ...
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