Interesting Weather Facts List:

• The naming of hurricanes and tropical storms officially began in 1953.
• The wind doesn’t make a sound until it blows against an object.
• Average global temperature is up 0.94°C (1.7°F) since 1880.
• Fire whirls are tornadoes made of fire caused by wildfires.
• At any given time, on average there are about 1800 thunderstorms occurring on Earth with 100 lightning strikes per second.
• For each minute of the day, 1 billion tonnes of rain falls on the Earth.
• A molecule of water will stay in the Earth’s atmosphere for an average duration of 10-12 days.
• Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.
• The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18 mph.
• It was so cold in 1684 that the Thames River in England froze solid for two months.

  

• Mawsynram in Meghalaya, India is the wettest place on Earth with an annual rainfall of more than 11 meters.
• Highest Temperature Recorded on Earth is 56.7°C (134°F) at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley, California, on July 10, 1913.
• Lowest Temperature Recorded on Earth is -89.2°C (-128.5°F) at Vostok, Antarctica on July 21, 1983.
• A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water.
• In 1899, it was so cold that the Mississippi river froze over its entire length.
• The air located around a lightning bolt is heated to around 30,000°C. This is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.
• The average width of a tornado’s funnel averages about 100 to 200 yards, but it may be as wide as a mile.
• Snowflakes falling at 2-4 mph can take up to 1 hour to reach the ground.
• The country most affected by tornadoes is the USA which faces on average 1200 tornadoes every year.
• Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica is the windiest place on Earth with winds of 200mph been recorded.

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Interesting Earth Facts List:

1. The only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia.
2. The equator lies across 14 different countries.
3. The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific.
4. The Earth’s shape could be described as an oblate spheroid.
5. Earth is almost five billion years old, although life (resembling life as we know it) has only existed on the planet for the last 150 million to 200 million years.
6. Life has only been present on Earth for only 5%-10% of its lifetime.
7. The 50 tallest mountains on Earth are all located in Asia !The air at the summit of Mount Everest , 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at the sea level.
8. The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.
9. The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet.
10. The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Lambert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.
11. The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
12. Point Farthest From the Center of the Earth is the peak of the volcano Chimborazo in Ecuador at 20,561 feet (6267 m). It is farthest from the centre of the earth due to its location near the equator and the oblateness of the Earth.
13. The largest inland sea is the Caspian Sea which is on the border of Iran and Russia.
14. Each year, about 1 million earthquakes occur in the world. About 100,000 of those can be felt and about 100 of them cause damage.
15. Hawaii is the most geographically isolated land mass in the world.
16. Earth accumulate 10 to 100 tonnes of material each day.
17. Chemical Composition of the Earth mainly consists of 34.6% Iron, 29.5% Oxygen, 15.2% Silicon, 12.7% Magnesium, 2.4% Nickel, 1.9% Sulphur, and 0.05% Titanium.
18. An earthquake on 16th December 1811, caused parts of the Mississippi river to flow backwards.

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