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A rainbow’s arc is always about 42° from the anti-solar point
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A rainbow’s arc is always about 42° from the anti-solar point

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A lightning bolt carries about 1 billion joules of energy
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A lightning bolt carries about 1 billion joules of energy

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A lightning flash heats air to ~30,000°C
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A lightning flash heats air to ~30,000°C

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A single raindrop can contain up to a million cloud droplets
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A single raindrop can contain up to a million cloud droplets

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Lightning heats air to about 30,000°C
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Lightning heats air to about 30,000°C

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An atmospheric river can carry as much water vapor as the Amazon’s flow

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Daytime lake breezes pull cool air inland then reverse after sunset

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Solar wind can take one to three days to spark auroras on Earth

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A glacier’s equilibrium line separates snowfall gain from melt loss

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The polar vortex is a cold stratospheric whirl that can buckle and spill Arctic air

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Heat waves often kill more people than many flashier natural disasters

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Drought can deepen for years even while occasional rain still falls

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Chinook and föhn winds can raise lee temperatures tens of degrees in hours

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Mountain ridges can flip weather from sun to storm within minutes

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Some polar deserts get less precipitation than hot deserts yet stay frozen

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Katabatic winds race down ice sheets faster than highway traffic

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Ice-dammed glacial lakes can empty in sudden catastrophic floods

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Permafrost can stay frozen for tens of thousands of years

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Some desert beetles harvest fog droplets on raised rear ends

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Cold air pools settle into desert basins after the sun drops

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Ventifacts are stones faceted by years of sandblasting wind

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Rain-shadow deserts form on the dry lee side of mountain walls

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Fog deserts drink coastal mist when rain almost never falls

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Avalanches can race downhill faster than a sprinting athlete

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Supercell storms spin on a deep rotating column called a mesocyclone

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