Weather Facts for Kids
Wild facts about weather
A single bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun.
It can rain diamonds on Jupiter and Saturn because of extreme pressure turning carbon into diamonds.
Snowflakes can take up to an hour to fall from a cloud to the ground.
The fastest wind speed ever recorded on Earth was 253 mph during a tornado in Oklahoma.
A hurricane can release the energy of 10,000 nuclear bombs — all just from water vapor condensing.
Raindrops aren't teardrop-shaped — they're actually shaped like tiny hamburger buns as they fall.
Fog is just a cloud that touches the ground.
The driest place on Earth is in Antarctica — some areas haven't had rain for nearly 2 million years.
You can estimate the temperature by counting cricket chirps — count chirps in 14 seconds and add 40 to get Fahrenheit.
An average cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds — roughly the same as 100 elephants.