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Weather has played a large and sometimes direct part in human history. Aside from climatic changes that have caused the gradual drift of populations (for example the desertification of the Middle East, and the formation of land bridges during glacial periods), extreme weather events have caused smaller scale population movements and intruded directly in historical events. One such event is the saving of Japan from invasion by the Mongol fleet of Kublai Khan by the Kamikaze winds in 1281. A series of great storms throughout the 13th century caused the powerful English Cinque Ports to be silted up and hence lose their influence. More recently, Hurricane Katrina forced the temporary abandonment of the entire city of New Orleans in 2005.
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On 25 June 1977 park ranger Roy C Sullivan, known as the human lightining conductor of Virginia, USA, was sent to Waynesboro Hospital with chest and stomach burns after being struck by lightning for the seventh time in his life. Previously, he had bee struck in 1942 (lost big toenail), 1969 (lost eyebrows), 1970 (left shoulder burnt), 1972 (hair set on fire), 1973 (new hair set on fire and legs burnt) and 1976 (ankle injured).
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The Weather Man (2005): Directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Caine. In life, accuracy counts. A Chicago weather man (Cage), separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive.
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The greatest recorded temperature ranges in the world are around the Siberian ‘cold pole’, in eastern Russia. Temperatures in Verkhoyansk have ranged 188º F (104.3º C), from -90º F (-67.7º C) to 98º F (36.6º C).
The greatest temperature variation recorded in a day is 100º F (55.4º C) (a fall from 44º F (6.6º C) to -56º F (-48.8º C)) at Browning MT, USA, on 23-24 January 1916.
The most freakish rise was 49º F (27.2º C) in 2 minutes at Spearfish, South Dakota, USA, from -4º F (-20º C) at 7.30 a.m. to 45º F (7.2º C) at 7.32 a.m. on 22 January 1943.
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A ‘positive giant’ is a massive discharge of lightning that occurs every few million strokes, in which the cloud-to-Earth and return strokes flash from and to the top of the thunderclouds. Energy of up to 3 billion joules has been recorded, and the temperature reaches about 54,032º F (30000º C), which is more than that of the surface of the sun.
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Like The Weather by 10000 Maniacs
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Storm (real name Ororo Munroe) is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. Best known as a prominent leader of the X-Men, she is the reigning queen of the fictional nation of Wakanda, a title held by marriage to fellow Marvel Comics superhero Black Panther. She was created by writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum, and first appeared in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May 1975), becoming one of the first black female superheroes.
Storm has the mutant power to control the weather and can fly at high speeds. She is consistently depicted as a member of some X-Men battalion and often served as the team’s leader from 1980 until 2006, when she married the Black Panther. She has been featured in almost every X-Men animated series and video game and has a theme ride named after her at the Universal Orlando Resort. Academy Award winner Halle Berry portrays Storm in the X-Men films.
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Hot Weather Punch
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Cold-weather chilli
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The following are all weather-related (amusing use of a word or phrase which has several meanings or which sounds like another word):
A husband and wife argued over the weather, but it soon blew over.
The forecaster was away because he was under the weather.
The weather forecast was for freezing rain, and sure enough it was an ice day.
Weather forecasters thinking is sometimes clouded.
Creative weather forecasters do a lot of brain storming.
Two weathermen each broke an arm and a leg in an accident, and called from the hospital about the four casts.
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. (John Ruskin)
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. (Patrick Young)
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. (Kin Hubbard)
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. (Author Unknown)
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. (Roger Miller)
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Tutunendo, Colombia is the wettest place in the world if measured by average annual rainfall, with 463.4 inches per year.
The Atacama desert, Chile, is the driest place in the world. The annual rainfall is effectively zero, and it experienced a drought of some 400 years up to 1971.
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The highest ever recorded temperature was 136.4º F (58º C) at Al’Aziziyah, Libya, on 13 September 1922
The lowest ever recorded temperature was -128.6º F (-89.2º C) at Vostok, Antartica on 21 July 1983
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The weather, fleecy clouds, and a made up woman don't last long. (French)
Bad birds seldom bring good weather. (Icelandic)
Everyone can navigate in fine weather. (Italian)
If you wait long enough, it will be good weather. (Japanese)
The weather vane will not work without wind. (Maltese)
Keep your weather-eye open. (Traditional)
In dark weather the devil is in the air. (Walloon)
Source: Creative Proverbs
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