The more salt you put on ice, the more the ice melts.
The hottest continent on earth is Africa, where a record high of 136.4 degrees F was once recorded.
Antarctica is the coldest continent on earth, where a temperature of 126.9 degrees F below zero was once recorded.
It gets as cold as minus 160 degrees F. ten miles above the ground on earth!
Raindrops aren’t really shaped like drops; they are perfectly round!
Antarctica gets less precipitation than any other continent on earth.
The Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest place on earth, where it has an average of three-hundredths of an inch of rain per year.
The greatest snowfall recorded in a day was 75.8 inches at Silver Lake, Colorado on April 14-15, 1921. I wonder how long schools were closed?
Submitted by Todd
Hold on to your hat! The fastest wind speed ever recorded was 231 miles per hour on Mount Washington, New Hampshire on April 12, 1934.
Submitted by Todd
The hottest place on earth is in Dallol, Ethiopia, which is a sizzling 94 degrees in the shade on a typical day!
A lightning bolt is 4 times hotter than the sun.
Submitted by B.
Once in England, because of a water spout, it rained frogs!
Submitted by the Taylors
Roy Sullivan, A U.S. park ranger, was struck by lightning seven times during his life and lived to tell about each of those strikes!
Lightning strikes 1,000 times per second on the planet earth.
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise, unless they're in Ireland.
Cows sometimes sit down in a field when they know it’s going to rain. (that way, they are saving a dry spot to sit for themselves).
How long can you tread water? The greatest rainfall recorded in a day was 73.62 inches at Reunion in the Indian Ocean on March 15, 1952.
Submitted by Todd
One inch of rain is equal to 10 inches of snow.
