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Showing posts with label meteorology. Show all posts
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Sunday, November 11, 2012

101 Interesting Things, part fifty-one: Blood rain and fire rainbows!

Today we have a twofer, since these are both kinda short, and it's part fifty-one, which officially puts this project over the halfway mark (fifty behind, fifty ahead, and a double-dipper in the middle).  Hooray!  Today also marks the first time I've had occasion to use a "meteorology" tag.  Double-hooray!

Our theme today is weird weather, and we open with blood rain.  No, not the Slayer song that single-handedly stopped me from beating Guitar Hero 3 on Hard Mode.

It's not even a good song.  At least your reward for The
Number of the Beast was rocking your own face off.

In ancient times, people wrote of blood falling from the sky as a bad omen, and while the whole "omen" part was hokum, the red rain itself was real.  It wasn't blood, of course, but - well, look at this: