STEVE, the atmospheric light display, could be considerably stranger than observers first suspected. Skywatchers are thrilled that the scientific explanation for the peculiar celestial phenomenon, which resembles an aurora in appearance and behavior but differs significantly, is open for discussion.
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For generations, weather has been a staple of both humor and comedy. Mark Twain wrote that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was his attempt to write a book without any weather in it. The “weather forecast for tonight,” comedian George Carlin said, was, in a word, “dark.” And writer Charles Dudley Warner noted that “everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”
Despite such witticisms, weather in general, an effect of wind and sun (on Earth, at least) is vital to our welfare and, indeed, our very existence, and it is taken so seriously, by farmers, researchers, and almost everyone else, that a whole branch of knowledge, meteorology, is dedicated to its study.