On the sun there are hurricanes bigger than 100 Earths.
Category: Weather
Crickets and Temperature
If you count the number of chirps a cricket makes in fourteen or fifteen seconds, then add forty, you will have the current temperature in Fahrenheit.
Smog
The world’s smog is so thick that astronomers are complaining.
Most of the smog that hovers over Los Angeles has been there thousands of years. It is mostly dust from the surrounding desert, and natural hydrocarbon output from plants.
Lightning Strikes
A church steeple in Germany was struck by lightning and destroyed on April 18, 1599. The members of the church rebuilt it. It was hit by lightning three more times between then and 1783, and rebuilt again and again. Every time it was hit, the date was April 18.
Once every three or four days an American dies due to being struck by lightning.
Two-thirds of the people struck by lightning survive.
Men are six times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
If you stand under an oak tree, you are much more likely to be struck by lightning that if you stand under many other kinds of trees. Why are oaks more dangerous? Their roots go deeper which make a better electrical ground.
An average bolt of lightning is less than one inch thick. The electricity is thirty million volts.
Thunder storms can approach as fast as fifty miles per hour.
Hilo Tsunami
Perhaps because of the attention given to the attack on Pearl Harbor five years earlier, the fact that a 45-foot high tidal wave destroyed much of the Hawaiian town of Hilo in 1946, is little known. One hundred seventy-three people died.
London Killer Fog
Due to a temperature inversion and air pollution, the “London Fog” turned into a smog that killed 2,850 people during December 5-13, 1951.
Raining Snails
One day in August 1892, in Germany, it started to rain. This rainstorm was unusual because somehow there were thousands of snails caught up in the clouds and they all came crashing down with their shells breaking to bits as they hit the ground.
