16 Fascinating Facts About the Weather.
Nathan Johnson
Published
02/20/2021
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How much do you really know about the weather?
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The wettest place on Earth is Mawsynram in Meghalaya, India, with an annual rainfall of about 11 meters. -
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What we recognize as ‘the weather’ is the state of the atmosphere. Furthermore, weather is the daily temperature and precipitation measure in the short-term. ‘Climate’ is the average (long-term) weather condition in a specific area. -
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We started assigning official names to hurricanes and tropical storms in 1953. -
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Wind is silent. It doesn’t make a sound until it blows against an object. -
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Think it’s rainy where you live? For each minute of the day, 1,000,000,000 tons of rain falls on the Earth. -
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“A little rain never hurt anybody.” It can’t hurt you just by hitting you, anyway. The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18 mph. -
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If you were around in 1684, you’d have been able to walk across the River Thames. Why? It was so cold that year that the river froze solid for 2 whole months. The same thing happened to the Mississippi river in 1899, when the entirety of it froze solid. -
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A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains LESS THAN A GALLON OF WATER! That one blew my mind. -
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At 30,000°C, the air surrounding a lightning bolt is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun. -
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Snow falling at 2-4 mph will take about an hour to hit the ground. -
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Thunder is caused by lightning. Thunder does not come AFTER lightning, it just takes some time for the sound to be heard. -
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Antofagasta, Chile is the driest place on Earth. It gets hit with a staggering 0.1 mm of rain each year. -
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Ferdinando II de Medici founded the first weather network in 1654. He had 11 stations in countries across Europe. -
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Officially, there are 13 recognized types of storms. -
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It is possible for a heatwave to make train tracks bend. -
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Blizzards can be so windy that snowflakes can feel like pebbles being thrown at your face.
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