Three days before the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson purchased a thermometer from a ...

The best weather apps can make sure that you'll never get caught out by whatever nature wants to throw at you each day. Because the last thing any of us need is for a sudden burst of rain or ...

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The first time Brampton, Ont., artist Misbah Ahmed experienced dry thunder was in 2020. The door of her maternal grandfather's house in Islamabad, Pakistan, had blown open, and when she went ...

Another advantage of alcohol is that the freezing temperature of mercury is around -38F, so a mercury thermometer is not useful in extremely cold weather. Mercury can have usefulness over alcohol ...