Weather Facts |
A hurricane struck South Florida drowning 124 persons stranded in the Florida Keys. |
Baseball sized hail killed 246 people in India in 1888. |
One lightning bolt has enough electricity to service 200 000 homes.
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The Empire State Building gets struck by lightning on the average of 500 a year.
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The largest piece of ice to fall to earth was an ice block 6 meters (20 ft) across that fell in Scotland on 13 August 1849. |
The largest snowflakes in the world fell across Fort Keogh in Montana (USA) on 28 January 1887. |
Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is the only permanent snowcap within sight of the equator. |
There is NOT a law of nature that prohibits 2 snowflakes from being identical. |
Light snow falls in Canberra during most years, but it rarely accumulates to more than a few centimeters. |
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