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| | Facts | - About 10% of the 100,000 thunderstorms that occur in the USA every year are classified as severe.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - 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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Comment On This Amusing Fact - In 1890, there was no sunshine for the whole month of December in Westminster in London.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - 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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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Scientists with high-speed cameras have discovered that rain drops are not tear shaped but rather look like hamburger buns.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - 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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Comment On This Amusing Fact - The greatest snowfall ever in a single storm was 189 inches at the Mount Shasta Ski Bowl in February, 1959.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - 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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Comment On This Amusing Fact - 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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Comment On This Amusing Fact - 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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Comment On This Amusing Fact - There are approximately 2000 thunderstorms that are active at the same time which results in 100 lightning flashes a second.
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