Want to know about weird facts about the weather and weather conditions like rain, snow, hurricane, ...? You get to right place as right below here are some of the most interesting weather facts that you might have never heard about.
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| A rainy day |
- The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.
- During a hurricane, 90% of the people who die end up dying from drowning.
- The coldest temperature ever recorded was a negative 126.9 degrees fahrenheit in Vostok Station, Antarctica.
- Between evaporation and falling as precipitation, a droplet of water may travel thousands of miles.
- The typical lifetime of a small cumulus cloud is between 10 to 15 minutes.
- A corn field of one acre gives of 4,000 gallons off water per day in evaporation.
- A molecule of water will stay in Earth’s atmosphere for an average duration of 10-12 days.
- Snowflakes falling at 2-4 mph can take about 1 hr to reach the ground.
- For each minute of the day, 1 billion tons of rain falls on the Earth.
- At any given time, on average there are about 1800 thunderstorms occurring on earth with 100 lightning strikes per second.
- Lightning bolts can travel 60 miles.
- A lightning bolt travels at about 14,000mph and brings 300,000 volts of electricity to the ground.
- The air located around a lightning bolt is heated to around 30,000 degrees Celsius. This is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.
- The chances of being struck by lightning is about one in three million.
- The largest hailstone ever recorded in the United States was nearly the size of a soccer ball. It was a 7-inch wide chunk of ice.
- The highest temperature ever recorded in the United States was 134 degrees F at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley, California.
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