Friday, May 15, 2015

A Weather Eye

   A normal raindrop falls at about seven miles per hour.
   A downburst is a downward-blowing wind that sometimes comes blasting out of a thunderstorm. The damage looks like tornado damage, because the wind can be as strong as an F2 tornado, but debris is blown straight away from a point on the ground, not lifted into the air and transported downwind.
   A wind with a speed of seventy-four miles per hour or more is designated a hurricane.
   An inch of snow falling evenly on 1 acre of ground is equivalent to about 2,715 gallons of water.
   At any given time, there are eighteen hundred thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere.
   A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.
   The two hottest months at the equator are March and September.
   A rainbow can only occur when the sun is forty degrees or less above the horizon.
   Meteorologists claim they're right 85 percent of the time.
  

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