Weather

Lightning purifies our atmosphere.  We are all aware that deadly lightning strikes can take lives and cause destruction.  Yet in any given year the odds of being hit by lightning are low – only 1 in 1,222,000.  But not all effects of lightning are devastating.  Research scientists have found that lightning has a cleansing effect on earth’s atmosphere.  Up to 16% of cleansing of earth’s atmosphere is directly done by the effects of lightning.  Lightning produces chemical compounds that work to reduce toxic chemical pollutants like methane and carbon dioxide.  Lightning bolts strike the earth 77 million times every year, and bolts can spread out to 12 miles from a storm.

When He gave weight and pressure to the wind And allotted the waters by measure,  -Job  28: 25 (AMP).

He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.  -Psalm 135: 7 (KJV).

Winds are governed by their weight; and the weight of wind and water are significant determining factors regarding weather patterns.  We are used to it and don’t likely notice it, but wind has weight.  We depend on wind to sustain lives.  Wind is moving air.  Wind controls our climate by circulating air.  It moves warm and cold air around the world and balances earth’s temperature.  Wind moves clouds over the earth’s surface, and the clouds bring precipitation (e.g. needed water).  Without wind, continents would dry up.  Though wind is something we take for granted as a common occurrence, it is absolutely essential to life on earth.  Wind keeps the earth warm, carries the sun’s heat throughout our atmosphere, moves pollutants away and gives us cool breezes.  Wind is caused when air moves from higher to lower areas of atmospheric pressure.  The strongest wind ever recorded on earth (253 mph) was in 1996 from Tropical Cyclone Olivia in Australia.  Wind disperses seeds (a process called anemochory).  Wind makes the earth habitable.  Without wind, earth’s hot spots would become inhabitable and the poles would freeze solid.  Without wind, moist air would not be moved around.  Without air moving on earth, life would die out.  Animals and humans would eventually die from dehydration.  Living things would dry up.  Without wind, the earth would become an alien land of hostile extreme temperatures.

Snowflakes are such tantalizing, wondrous mysteries of astounding elegance and beauty.  Each snow crystal is ultimately a random piece of frosty bit, a gift swirled out of the Grand Designer’s treasure chest.  Each snowflake falling from the sky is an exclusive design distinct from all other snowflakes.  There appears to be no single template that guides the seemingly infinite, indescribably complex variety of these tiny geometric marvels.  The little beauties emerge as one-off gems, each arriving in its own special, differently-organized presentational package.  These miniature ornamental structures of Creation form slowly as they descend downward through the atmosphere.  Though there are endless, delicate structural patterns of snowflakes, they are mostly formed in hexagonal, 6-fold arrangements.