Weather Facts
General Records  
Highest Temperature 58C Al'Aziziyah Libya 13th Sept, 1922
Coldest Temperature -89.6C (-129f) Vostok Station, Antartica 21st July 1983
Driest Place Quillagua, Atacama Desert, Chile 0.02in/yr
Wettest Place Mawsynram just ahead of Cherrapunjee (both located in Meghalaya State, Northern India) *Mt. Wai-ale-ale in Hawaii has self-styled itself the planet's wettest spot, but it falls just short of Mawsynram.
Sunniest Place Yuma, Arizona (Guiness Records) or according to Nasa, Northern Niger, Sahara Desert and an area of the Pacific Ocean just south of Hawaii.
Largest Hailstone Measuring 7 inches in diameter (17.8 cm) and 18.75 inches (47.6 cm) fell in a storm over Aurora, Nebraska June 22, 2003
  On 14th April, 1986 Bangladesh was hit by the biggest hail stones ever recorded - weighing in at over 1kg each - killing 92 people.
Fastest Surface Wind 231mph Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, 12th April 1934.
Greatest Snowfall The greatest snowfall recorded was on Mt Rainier, Washington State, USA - Over 30metres fell during the winter of 1972.
Greatest Temprature Range The worlds greatest temperature range at a single location is 105°C, from minus 68°C to 37°C recorded at Verkhoyansk, Siberia.
   
Lightning is 5 times hotter then the surface of the sun.
The tiny droplets of water that make up fog are so small that it would take seven thousand million of them to make a single tablespoonful of water.
The average lifespan of a tornado is less than 15 minutes.
In 1967, Hurricane Beulah unleased 115 tornadoes over Texas.
Cloud droplets are extremely small. They are about ten thousandth of an inch across, a thousand times smaller than a raindrop.
The biggest clouds are cumulonimbus, climbing up to 9.7 kilometers (6 miles) high and holding up to half a million tons of water.
There are more than 16 million thunderstorms across the globe in a year.
Clouds can reflect so much ultraviolet light from the sunlight they dramatically increase the ultraviolet reaching the ground.
   
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The Great Storm of 1987 killed 18 people in England, destroyed over 14 million trees and had wind speeds equivalent to a category one hurricane. The cost of the disaster was around £1.5 billion.
Great Britain endures an annual Tornado count of around 70. They are virtually always much less significant than the twisters associated with USA, but nevertheless do occasionally cause damage, injury or deaths as with the Birmingham tornado in 2005.
The wettest ever year in England & Wales was in 1872.
The wettest place in Britain is Dalness, Glen Etive in the Scottish Highlands.
St. Helier in Jersey is the warmest place in Britain.
   
Australian Records and Facts
Melbourne (VIC) has the dubious honour of being Australia's least sunny capital with an average of 5.7 hours of sunshine each day.
Darwin (NT) is the sunniest capital with an average of 8.5 hours a day.
The wind record goes to Mardie in Western Australia, when winds gusted to 259 km/h (162 mph) during Cyclone "Trixie" on 19 February 1975
In Australia, Canberra wins the title of the 'foggiest' capital city with an average of 47 fogs each year.
The greatest recorded temperature range in Australia is 57.2°C, measured in White Cliffs (NSW) where the maximum has risen to over 50°C and the minimum has fallen to minus 7°C.
   
   
   
American Records and Facts