45In meteorology, three different temperature scales are used: Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin. German-born scientist Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit developed the Fahrenheit Scale. He introduced his ...

IN NATURE of July 19 a review entitled “Discursive Meteorology”, meaning as I think ‘discursive physics’, asks a question to which I ought if possible to find an answer. The reviewer ...

It is the Lord Kelvin’s Water Dropper aka Lord Kelvin’s Thunderstorm, invented in the 1860s by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, the same fellow for whom the Kelvin temperature scale is named.

This is only place I know where the Kelvin temperature scale is widely used by nonscientists. Daylight-white bulbs are those listed around 6,000 Kelvin, and that is close to the temperature of the ...

I am typing this from the Atlanta area right now, and it’s cold. In fact, the current temperature at my house is 9 degrees F and the winds are roughly 24 mph. That means it feels like -5 degrees ...