If you could pay $30 a month for five to ten years to immediately and permanently save $40 or $50 a month with no strings attached, would you do that?

Incredibly, this is an option for people purchasing a home, but not many people know about it because the idea of paying to save has not caught on.

Here are the basics of how it works:

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When people think about weather and health, they rightly think of cold weather, the flu and cold viruses.  Cold weather and the flu seem to at least be related phenomena; we see the number of colds and flus kick up during winter season.  How exactly might it work?

And what about hot, dry or humid weather?  Certainly, these can also have an impact on health.  But how?  Or have you ever had a health issue or something that happens with your body and noticed that the condition gets aggravated with certain kinds of weather?  Finally, let’s not ignore weather’s impact on your mental state.  We explore these issues in blogs to come.

Most people nowadays understand there’s nothing mystical or mythical about thunder. When you hear that loud clapping sound after a flash of lightning, it’s physics at work. The electrical charge of lightning heats the surrounding air up to temperatures of 56,000 degrees Farenheit. Those superheated air molecules rapidly expand outward at a rate much faster than the cooler air molecules on the outer layer can move. It’s this powerful force of compression of hot air molecules colliding into cold air molecules that creates the loud rolling and clapping sounds of thunder.