Month: July 2014

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:  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:  What is the childlike name given to the significant weather activity linked to sea temperature rise in the Pacific Ocean?

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:  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:  9 out of 10 lightning bolts strike land rather than oceans.

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:  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:  An average of 1.2 million acres of U.S. woodland burn every year in wildfires.

Swackett Fun Fact: The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.