Month: April 2015

Swackett Weather Fun Fact:  A tornado in Oklahoma once destroyed a whole motel which people later found the motel’s sign in Arkansas.

Swackett Weather Fun Facts:   A raindrop’s size as it leaves a cloud is determined by several factors, including the availability of water vapor and the intensity of updrafts within the cloud.  Larger drops tend to result from the vigorous updrafts within a thunderstorm.

Swackett Fun Facts:  Noctiphobia is the abnormal fear of darkness or night.

Swackett Weather Fun Fact: Crepuscular rays, “Jacob’s ladder”, are streaks of light or bands of sunlight shining through breaks in clouds along the horizon that gives an eye pleasing pattern of light streaks alternating with bluish streaks.

Swackett Fun Facts:  A candle flame typically burns around 1800 degrees Fahrenheit (1000 Celsius).

Swackett Weather Fun Facts:  Ball Lightning are balls of light that float through air during storms, ranging in size from golf ball to football.

 

Swackett Fun Fact:  How much does air weigh?   The total weight of the atmosphere exerts a pressure of about 14.7 pounds per square inch at sea level but if you live in Denver, Colorado, which is at an elevation of about 5,000 feet, then about 12.5 pounds per square inch of air pressure.

Swackett Fun Fact: Monster waves of over 100 feet tall can suddenly appear at sea when there is no storm to cause them and can easily sink a freighter.

Swackett Fun Fact:  Nephophobia is an excessive fear of clouds and people who experience this phobia will not look up in the sky.

Swackett Fun Fact:   Did you know?  First Lady Helen Herron Taft, noted for accepting Japan’s gift of cherry trees to Washington D.C., was also noted for beautifying the city by encouraging flower clubs to add plants to the landscape.