Swackett Fun Fact: Iceland is a small mountainous eland that gets light nearly 24 hours a day in June and darkness almost all the time in December.
Swackett Weather Fun Fact: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
Swackett Weather Fun Fact: A Geo-Stationary Satellite is over 21747.99172 miles (35,000 kilometers) above the earth which allows meteorologist to track weather systems.
Swackett Weather Fun Quiz: Childlike Name
Swackett Weather Fun Quiz: What is the childlike name given to the significant weather activity linked to sea temperature rise in the Pacific Ocean?
Swackett Weather Fun Fact: California to New York
Swackett Weather Fun Fact: Since temperature differences affect the jet stream, you can fly faster from California to New York than the other way around.
Swackett Weather Fun Fact: Longest-Lasting Tropical Storm
Swackett Weather Fun Fact: A storm named John continued for 31 days and was the longest-lasting Pacific tropical storm that also changed status from a hurricane to a typhoon and back to a huricane.
Swackett Weather Fun Fact: Lightning Strikes
Swackett Weather Fun Fact: 9 out of 10 lightning bolts strike land rather than oceans.
Swackett Fun Fact: Hottest Man-Made Temperature
Swackett Fun Fact: Hotter than the core of the sun, Brookhaven Natural Laboratory in New York has created the hottest man-made temperature ever recorded, 7.2 trillion degrees fahrenheit, in their Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in an attempt to recreate big-bang like conditions.
Swackett Weather Fun Fact: Electric Charge
Swackett Weather Fun Fact: At every point where lightning does strike the ground, the electric charge can spread as much as 60 feet away from the point of contact.
Swackett Weather Fun Fact: Acres Burned in Wildfires
Swackett Weather Fun Fact: An average of 1.2 million acres of U.S. woodland burn every year in wildfires.
Swackett Fun Fact: Weight of an Ice Berg
Swackett Fun Fact: The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.