- The strongest gust of wind was recorded at the Mount Washington Observatory on April 12th, 1934, and measured 231 miles per hour.
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- The own of Codell in Kansas was hit by a deadly tornado on May 20th, 1918. Not remarkable except it had also been hit by tornados at around the same time in the evening, on the same day 3 yrs in a row.
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- In the United States, lightning hits the ground 40 million times a year.
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- Scientists with high-speed cameras have discovered that rain drops are not tear shaped but rather look like hamburger buns.
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- The largest known hailstone to have fallen was in Germany in 1925, which weighed close to four and a half pounds.
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- The temperature of lightning bolts is sometimes hotter than the surface of the sun.
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- There are approximately 2000 thunderstorms that are active at the same time which results in 100 lightning flashes a second.
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- The greatest snowfall ever in a single storm was 189 inches at the Mount Shasta Ski Bowl in February, 1959.
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- On September 3, 1970, a hailstone was found in Coffeyville, Kansas that was eight inches in diameter and weighed 1.67 pounds.
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- The size of a raindrop is around 0.5 mm - 2.5 mm, and they fall from the sky on average 21 feet per second.
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- The average temperature on Earth is 15 degrees celcius.
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- About 10% of the 100,000 thunderstorms that occur in the USA every year are classified as severe.
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- The city of Argentia which is located on Newfoundland's southwest coast, is Canada's most fog-bound community. It has 206 days of fog each year.
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- After the Krakatoa volcano eruption in 1883 in Indonesia, many people reported that, because of the dust, the sunset appeared green and the moon blue. The moon was said to appear blue for almost two years.
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- More than 260,000 people have been killed by volcanic activity since 1700 AD.
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- In 1992, the Antarctic Ozone hole was larger than the continent of North America.
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- 898 tornadoes were recorded to have occurred in the United States in the year 2000.
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- One million cloud droplets are needed to make enough water to produce one raindrop.
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- To make one raindrop of water, it takes approximately a million cloud droplets
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- The fastest speed a raindrop had reached when falling is seven miles per hour.
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- In 1890, there was no sunshine for the whole month of December in Westminster in London.
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- The windiest place in the world is Mount Washington, New Hampshire, USA. The highest wind was on April 12, 1934 when it reached 231 mph.
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- Due to the deforestation of the forests in North China, over one million tons of sands blows into Beijing from the Gobi desert. It sometimes causes the sky to turn yellow.
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