"At times the air was so saturated with suspended water that an intake of breath caused him to sputter and choke. He began to worry about the very strange—but very real–possibility of drowning in the sky."

"As I write this, there's an insane dust storm that's sweeping over Sydney. I found out about it by seeing a Twitter post from Dan Hill. I'm based in San Francisco but found it so extraordinary I decided to go and see if I could spot pictures coming in and make a little gallery out of them."

"For ham radio operators who like to contact stations over greater distances than would ordinarily be possible on the VHF frequencies, radio aurora is great! Besides the thrill of making contacts that most poeple would consider impossible, the phenomenon itself is fascinating - and like its visual counterpart, very unpredictable. It's the thrill of the chase."

"Michael Fish's infamous weather forecast 20 years ago today, in which he seemed to scotch rumours of a hurricane, has gone down in broadcasting history. There's only one problem - that wasn't what happened"

"The Shipping Forecast can be heard four times a day on BBC Radio 4, giving details of conditions in the seas around the UK, Ireland and beyond. Each broadcast attracts hundreds of thousands of listeners, many of them with no connection to coastal waters

"I could see the Earth coming - wow, like Apollo 13 - I can see the Earth," ... "I was shaking all the time. The last thing I remember it was dark, I could hear lightning all around me," she told Australia's national broadcaster, ABC.

"Home video of a multitude of car crashes on an icy hill in Portland, OR (1/16)" Scary stuff.

Up-to-date images of the earth from an ESA satellite.

Info about and images from a satellite receiving station based at Dundee University.