Interesting facts about weather
1. The largest hailstone on record was 7 in. (17.8cm) wide-almost the size of a soccer ball!!! It landed on a house during a severe thunderstorm in Aurora, Nebraska, on June 22, 2003.
2. Storm clouds look dark because they are so full with water that mot sunlight can't pass through them.
3. A thunderstorm cloud may contain about 275 million gallons of water.
4. Lighning flashes somewhere on Earth 100 times every second.
5. World record for the most snowfall in a 24-hour period: 6.3 ft. (1.9m) in Silver Lake, Colorado, on April 14-15 1921.( In all, 87 in. Or (2.2m) of snow fell during the 28-hour storm.
6. The highest temperature in the U.S was 134 degrees farenheight (56.7. C) in Death Valley, California, on July 10, 1913.
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