Get to know interesting trivia about weather through these weather fast facts. This article will provide wide-range of fun facts about weather for kids that will increase your knowledge about rain fall, wind speed, snow fall, lightning facts and more.

  • Amongst all thunderstorm types, Supercells are the most hazardous.
  • The wind inside a tornado funnel is considered the fastest, with the recorded speed of 300mph.
  • Dry air is heavier than wet air.
  • The strongest and most powerful wind gust ever recorded occurred in Mount Washington, New Hampshire on April 12, 1934, with the speed of 231 mph.
  • Did you know which place on earth is the driest? It is Wadi Halfa of Sudan which has less than 2.5 mm of rainfall on average, in a year!
  • Rain facts for kids: There are about 1 billion tons of rainfalls drop on Earth in a minute!
  • Here’s one lighting facts for kids. Did you know that a lighting bolt can travel approximately 96 km or 60 miles.
  • In 1888, a baseball-sized hail took the life of 246 people in India.
  • One amazing lighting facts is that a single lighting bolt is enough to supply electricity to almost 200, 000 households!
  • A common lightning flash can only lasts for about 0.2 seconds.
  • The largest ice block to fall on earth was measured 6 meters across. It fell on August 13, 1849 in Scotland.

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