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Lightning is electrical discharge that typically take place in dusty or stormy atmospheric conditions.

Open and closed lakes refer to the major subdivisions of lakes - bodies of water surrounded by land.

A pluvial lake is a lake that experiences significant increase in depth and extent as a result of increased precipitation and reduced evaporation.

A storm system bolstered by the remnants of Hurricane Ike caused flooding in the Chicagoland area during the weekend of September 13-14, 2008. More than 7 inches of rain ...

Water is the most plentiful natural resource on Earth. It is essential for all life on the planet. Water makes up roughly 70% of the Earth's surface. Earth is ...

A stream bed is the channel bottom of a stream, river or creek; the physical confine of the normal water flow. The lateral confines or channel margins, during all but ...

Montgomery is the capital city of the southern state of Alabama. It is the second most populated city in the state. It is rich in Civil War history being the ...

In geology, lake capture is the process of capture of the waters collected in a lake by a neighbor river basin.