Friday, March 12, 2021

10 WILD FACTS ABOUT WEATHER








1." Pea soup " fog is any thick and heavy fog . It gets its name from London during the Industrial Revolution when coal smoke coated the city with yellow smog, which the people nicknamed pea soup 


2. A mirage gives the appearance of a giant lake in the middle of a desert. What it really is: a reflection of the sky on a layer of hot air


3. Satellites up to 1,000 miles ( 1.609 km ) above Earth keep track of the weather below


4. ANCIENT GREEKS BELIEVED THAT WIND WAS THE EARTH BREATHING.

5.When it is winter in the United States, it is summer in Australia.


6.In cold weather when you can " see your breath, you're actually seeing water vapor released from your mouth that has turned into tiny visible droplets 


7. Hawaii, USA, is one of the wettest places in the world. It averages 450 inches ( 1.143 cm ) of rainfall a year 

8.San Francisco, USA, is known as " Fog City " Summer fog is caused by warm air mixing with the cool water coming into the San Francisco Bay.


9.Nighttime rainbows are called moon! They rarely occur because the moon must be very bright and be positioned in just the right way in relation to the rain. 

10.Hoarfrost is when spiky ice freezes on plants

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