Wild weather

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By Christina Baker — writer, teacher and educational journalist

Original article published 21 December 2007

Explore Mother Nature’s weird, wild and wonderful weather!

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout

Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!

You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,

Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,

Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,

Smite flat the thick rotundity o’ the world!
(King Lear, Act III, Scene II)