Weather Questions | Science Questions with Surprising Answers (2024)

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What are some interesting weather trivia? ›

8) About 2,000 thunderstorms rain down on Earth every minute. 9) A 2003 heatwave turned grapes to raisins before they were picked from the vine! 10) Lightning often follows a volcanic eruption. 11) Raindrops can be the size of a housefly and fall at more than 30kmph.

Virga. Virga is ghostly precipitation that never makes it to the ground. When the air beneath a cloud is very dry, precipitation falling through it evaporates before reaching Earth's surface.

Water freezes at 0 °C and -32 °F. Celsius is the world's most common way of measuring temperature. −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F) is the coldest temperature that has been ever recorded on Earth. It was recorded at Vostok Station located in Antarctica.

What are some interesting facts about storms? ›

Nearly 1,800 thunderstorms are occurring at any moment around the world. That's 16 million a year! Despite their small size, all thunderstorms are dangerous. Every thunderstorm produces lightning, which kills more people each year than tornadoes.

Weather is defined as the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place, with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind speed and direction, and barometric pressure.

Pressure is important as it can tell us about what kind of weather to expect; when the pressure is high we can usually expect clear skies and light winds, when the pressure is low we can usually expect wet and windy weather.