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Weird weather facts
In the United States, the west has experienced less rain over the past 50 years, as well as increases in the severity and length of ______________.
The effects of _________________ make it difficult to support food crops. In the Horn of Africa, the 1984-1985 ________________ led to a famine, which killed 750,000 people. In the United States, ____________________ are most likely to occur in the Midwest and the South.
The USA averages around 1200 ___________________ every year, more than in any other country. In 1989 the deadliest ________________ ever recorded in the world killed around 1300 people in Bangladesh. Most __________________ have wind speeds less than 100 miles per hour(161 kilometres per hour). Extreme _________________ can reach wind speeds of over 300miles per hour(483 kilometres per hour).
_____________________ can damage bridges, roads and other transport links. River __________________ is the most common type of ________________ event. If the flow rate exceeds the capacity of the river channel then __________________ of the surrounding area can occur. The Yellow River (Huang He) in China has had the four deadliest ______________________ events in world history. The ____________________ of 1931 resulted in 1 to 4 million people being killed.
In January of 1954, Blons, Austria saw one of its worst ___________________ to date. 118 people were buried. While rescue workers were trying to get them out, another unexpected __________________ came and wiped them out.
In the World War II, the Italian and Austrian military had bases in the Alps. On what is now known as “White Friday”, the Alps witnessed a series of ____________________ claiming the lives of 10,000 soldiers, none of which guessed that enemy fire or bombs would be the least of their worries.
_____________________ are the only weather disasters that have been given their own names. The first time anyone flew into a ___________________ happened in 1943 in the middle of World War II.
___________________ Floyd was barely a category I ___________________ , but it still managed to mow down 19 million trees and caused over a billion dollars in damage.
One of the most famous ____________________ in history, the Great ____________________ was caused by a devastating potato disease. In 1853, 1.5 million Irish were dead, and an additional 2 million had emigrated.
In practice, what little seeds that sprouted were severely stunted in growth due to overcrowding. These failed policies, teamed with a flood in 1959 and a drought in 1960, affected the entirety of the Chinese nation. By the time the Great Leap Forward had ended in 1962, 43 million Chinese had died from the __________________.
Without large rice stocks, people were left with no food reserves and the ensuing ___________________ killed 10 million Bengalis in 1943.
There are about 500,000 _______________________ a year around the world, as detected by sensitive instruments.
On March 28, 1964, Prince William Sound, Alaska, experienced a 9.2 magnitude event – one of the biggest ever. The ____________________ killed 125 people and caused $311 million in property damages.
The deadliest ___________________ ever struck January 23, 1556 in Shansi, China. Some 830,000 are estimated to have died.
The largest _______________________ ever recorded was a magnitude 9.5 in Chile on May 22, 1960.
Hawaii has a____________________ approximately every year however only one every seven years causes much damage. The largest ______________________ in Hawaii’s recorded history occurred in 1946, which killed 170 people.
The 2011 ______________________ caused by the Tohoku earthquake off the east coast of Japan killed more than 15,000 people. This __________________ also caused a few nuclear accidents.
The __________________ in the Indian Ocean in 2004 killed more than 230,000 people in 14 countries, from Thailand to Africa.
The weather is getting stranger, right? Well, for the most part no, scientists say, but humans often think so when a strange event does occur. So, here’s your chance to prove how much you know about weather oddities:
What do you call a tornado that touches down over water?
Tornado
Waternado
Waterspout
What can cause the sky to seem to rain blood?
Blood from war
Solar storms
Dust or sand in the atmosphere
Where is the driest place on the planet?
Mawsynram in India
Antofagasta in Chile
New Hampshire, USA
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica on the 21 July 1983?
- 89.6 *C
- 98.6*C
- 100* C
What’s the heaviest hailstone on record?
How many metres was the greatest snowfall recorded in Washington State, USA during the winter of 1972?
50 metres
40 metres
30 metres
Which of these phenomena can create lightning?
How many people in the USA are killed by lightning each year, on average?
Where is the least sunny place on earth?
Arizona
North Pole
South Pole
Where on earth the highest temperature + 58*C has recorded?
Bangladesh
Arizona
Al’Aziziyah in Libya
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