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SUNSHINE

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• Yuma in Arizona (USA) is the sunniest place in the world.  It experiences an average of 4,055 hours of sunshine each year (out of a possible 4,456 hours).  
• It takes eight minutes for the sun to travel to earth and so that glorious sunshine hitting your face right now left the sun eight minutes ago (you may remember this from my past post title 'eight minutes' read it here.

RAIN

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• The amount of water held in the atmosphere at any time is sufficient to produce about 2.5cm (1 inch) of rain over the surface of the earth. 
• The total amount of precipitation to fall to earth in one year is 5,000 million million tonnes.  
• A rainbow was visible for 6 hours (from 9am to 6pm) at Wetherby, Yorkshire (UK) on 14 March 1994.  This is rare as most rainbows last for only a few minutes.  
• The Largest Hailstone fell to earth in Bangladesh in 1986, it weighed 1kg.

WIND

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• The windiest place in the world is Port Martin, Antarctica, which has an average wind speed over a year of 64 km/h (40 mph).   It experiences gale force 8 winds for over a hundred days a year
• The fastest winds on earth are inside a tornado funnel.  Winds here have been recorded at 480 km/h (300 mph). 
  

 SNOW

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• The Most Snow Produced in a single snowstorm was 4.8 metres, in California in 1959.
• Permanent snow and ice cover about 12% (21 million square km's) of the Earth's land surface.
• The largest snowflakes in the world fell across Fort Keogh in Montana (USA) on 28 January 1887.  The flakes were measured at a massive 38cm (15 ins) across by 20cm (8 ins) thick.  

LIGHTNING

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• At any particular time, there are approximately 1,800 thunderstorms occurring in the Earth's atmosphere.
• A typical flash of folk lightning lasts for about 0.2 seconds and is five times hotter than the surface of the sun
  
  
  Amazing weather facts provided by www.gungahlinweather.com

  
  
  
  
  
  
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