There is enough energy in one bolt of lightning to power a home for two weeks!
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In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined!
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Carbon dioxide is a trace gas and by itself will produce little warming. Also, as CO2 increases, the incremental warming is less, as the effect is logarithmic so the more CO2, the less warming it produces.
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There is a persistent storm in Venezuela that produces lightning 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour and has been going since at least the 16th century.
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Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
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-40 degrees Celsius is equal to -40 degrees Fahrenheit.
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The winter of 1932 in the US was so cold that Niagara falls froze completely solid!
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Circumhorizontal arcs (loosely known as fire rainbows) are the rarest of all naturally occurring atmospheric phenomena.
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