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10 Wild Weather Facts
1. Vice-Admiral Robert Fitzroy, captain of the famous ship HMS Beagle of Darwin's voyages, coined the word "forecast" in the 1850s.
2. The landscape of a given area can affect the weather. For example, a flat island will have different weather than a nearby mountainous island.
3. In Papua New Guinea, weather that is so humid it will turn to rainstorms as soon as the sun heats the air is called chay nat, meaning "rain sun."
4. The weather phenomenon known as El Niño refers to ocean currents that store and transport heat from South America to Australia, and vice versa, causing large changes in their climates.
5. Phoenix, Arizona, and Las Vegas, Nevada, are the United States' two hottest major cities.
6. In the past five decades, there has been a fivefold increase in the number of natural disasters occurring worldwide.
7. Billions of snowflakes can fall in a single snowstorm.
8. In 2021, 80% to 90% of all deaths caused by extreme weather conditions occurred in developing countries.
9. Tornadoes occur more frequently in the United States, where there are over 1,200 tornadoes a year.
10. The record for the world's largest hailstone is held by South Dakota, where a piece of hail 7.99 inches wide and weighing 1.90 pounds fell in 2010.
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10 Wild Weather Facts
1. Vice-Admiral Robert Fitzroy, captain of the famous ship HMS Beagle of Darwin's voyages, coined the word "forecast" in the 1850s.
2. The landscape of a given area can affect the weather. For example, a flat island will have different weather than a nearby mountainous island.
3. In Papua New Guinea, weather that is so humid it will turn to rainstorms as soon as the sun heats the air is called chay nat, meaning "rain sun."
4. The weather phenomenon known as El Niño refers to ocean currents that store and transport heat from South America to Australia, and vice versa, causing large changes in their climates.
5. Phoenix, Arizona, and Las Vegas, Nevada, are the United States' two hottest major cities.
6. In the past five decades, there has been a fivefold increase in the number of natural disasters occurring worldwide.
7. Billions of snowflakes can fall in a single snowstorm.
8. In 2021, 80% to 90% of all deaths caused by extreme weather conditions occurred in developing countries.
9. Tornadoes occur more frequently in the United States, where there are over 1,200 tornadoes a year.
10. The record for the world's largest hailstone is held by South Dakota, where a piece of hail 7.99 inches wide and weighing 1.90 pounds fell in 2010.
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