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Weather is the Sun’s doing. It might be hard to believe when you are being hammered by a cold winter storm, but the Sun, the star of the solar system, is the driving force behind all this weather, the commander in chief of all these air wars. The heat energy — the solar energy — radiating from this star is the fuel that drives it all, everything I describe in Weather For Dummies. If it were not for the Sun’s warming of Earth and its atmosphere, the planet would be frozen solid, a ball of ice. (And nobody would be around to read — or write — about the weather.) The Sun’s energy is the fuel, and weather is the result of the huge temperature differences between the Equator and the poles. These temperature differences are partly Earth’s doing, of course. But if you want something to blame it on, blame the weather on what happens deep within the interior of a star 93 million miles away!