Storm Clouds with First-Class Frequent-Flyer Status A Dispatch from Everywhere and Nowhere in Particular By the time you read this, the storm has already checked two more time zones off its bucket list. Born somewhere over the mid-Atlantic—possibly above a rusting Portuguese trawler that long ago gave up pretending to fish—the cyclone now carries diplomatic…
**Orlando Weather: Where the Magic Kingdom Meets the Greenhouse Effect** While Europe debates whether 30°C constitutes a humanitarian crisis and the Middle East wonders what all the fuss is about, Orlando has been quietly perfecting its own microclimate of meteorological absurdity. The city that gifted the world animatronic presidents and $15 churros now presents its…
**Boston’s Weather: A Global Parable of Snow, Hubris, and the End of the World as We Know It** *By our correspondent who once wore flip-flops in February and has the frostbite to prove it* BOSTON—While the rest of the planet debates whether 2023 was merely the hottest year on record or the opening act for…
The Pacific’s latest mood swing—Hurricane Kiko, a name that sounds more like a trendy Tokyo café than a Category-4 air punch—skimmed past Hawaii this week with the polite indifference of a tourist who realizes the luau is overpriced. From Sydney to São Paulo, the collective global reaction was a shrug that registered on seismographs: another…
**The Global Oracle: How a 232-Year-Old American Farmer’s Diary Became the World’s Most Unexpected Climate Prophet** In a world where billion-dollar satellites can’t predict tomorrow’s weather but your grandfather’s knee can, the Old Farmer’s Almanac stands as humanity’s most charming anachronism—a publication that somehow remains relevant despite using planetary positions and “secret formulas” that would…
