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Weather Facts
« on: February 25, 2016, 03:34:16 AM »
I have slowly been going through the weather facts that were posted in a previous thread in an attempt to verify and correct the information.

The last one I looked up turned out to be interesting.

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Spain experienced a giant hailstorm in January of 2000 when giant ice chunks dropped from a seemingly cloudless sky. For 10 days, the country was accosted by hail that crushed car hoods and windshields, seriously injuring anyone who got in the way. More than 15 basketball-sized hailstones were discovered in the onslaught, the largest weighting in a 2.25 pounds (1.02 kg).

Check this link - http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=19886

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Re: Weather Facts
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2016, 01:45:20 PM »
Interesting read. Thanks for posting.
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Re: Weather Facts
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2016, 03:32:04 PM »
Ouch!  And I thought baseball size hail was bad. 

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Atmospheric river fact (Re: Weather Facts)
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2017, 11:32:10 PM »
Dear WeatherCat seekers of Weather Facts,

I can't find the original thread of Weather Facts, so I'll suggest this fact to be added to the default collection of WeatherCat Weather Facts.  It is from the Wikipedia article on atmospheric rivers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_river

Here is the fact: "On any given day, atmospheric rivers account for over 90% of the global meridional (north-south) water vapor transport, yet they cover less than 10% of the Earth's circumference."

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]

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Re: Atmospheric river fact (Re: Weather Facts)
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2017, 07:17:47 AM »
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