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Weather Myths Debunked
Dr. Marshall Shepherd, host of the show Weather Geeks on The Weather Channel, took time to produce a Wunderground blog post debunking fifteen of the most popular weather myths that appear in his Facebook Newsfeed. Dr. Shepherd is held in high regard in the weather community, and I’m happy he took the time to do this. Here are the first few from his list published earlier this morning:
1. Heat lightning is not the sky lighting up because it is hot. You are just seeing lightning from a storm too far away to hear thunder.
2. You can’t see water vapor. Water vapor is the gaseous phase of water. So when you see “fog” in shower or coming off a pond, you are seeing liquid droplets or condensate not water vapor.
3. It can and does get cold in deserts.
4. The Earth is actually at its closest point to the Sun in January time frame when we are in Winter in US. This is counterintuitive to many people.
There are several more myths he breaks down in the original post, so be sure and check it out. Hopefully you haven’t fallen for any of these tall weather tales.