Weather information and weird facts!
This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.
Weather of Arabia - In this article, we will present strange facts and information about the weather, its effects and history, weather disasters and factors, the meaning of the word weather in different languages, and strange facts and information that you may hear for the first time.
- A person can get sunburn even when it is cloudy, because 80% of UV rays can penetrate cloud cover.
- Until 1950, weather experts were forbidden to talk about hurricanes!
- More people die each year from heatstroke than from all natural disasters.
- In French, Spanish, Hungarian, Serbian, Portuguese, Italian, Croatian, Bosnian and some other languages, the word for "time" is the same as the word for "weather".
- 51% of people believe that inclement weather affects cloud computing.
- The lightning strike is five times the surface temperature of the sun.
- Causing another country's weather to change is a war crime under the 1976 Geneva Convention.
- Cocoa plants are expected to disappear around 2050 due to higher temperatures and drier weather.
- Dirty snow melts faster than clean snow!
- The "Rain of Fish" is an annual weather event in which hundreds of fish rain from the sky on the city of Yoro, Honduras.
- The word "Weather" was originally meant as "Wind".
- Weather disasters affect 170 million people annually, while 3 decades ago they affected only 60 million people.
- Most flight delays in the USA are caused by mechanical and crew problems, not weather.
- Nails grow faster in warm weather than in cold weather.
- Floods, storms, heat waves, droughts and other weather-related events caused 90% of major disasters in the past 20 years.
- The world's first weather map, published in the Times on 4/1/1875, gave the weather for the previous day.
- In 1993, 500 people died in a blizzard that hit East Coast, USA, and caused $1.2 billion in damage.
- We don't catch a cold because of the cold weather. People spend more time indoors when it's cold, which allows germs to pass between people more easily.
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This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.
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