10 Cases of Extreme Natural Weather
April 5, 2009 5:58 PM   Subscribe

Most people have experienced their fair share of “strange weather.” It may have been a snow flurry in May or 70-degree day in December, but either way unnatural weather often catches us off guard... This is a list of ten cases of extreme Natural weather which includes the hottest temperature, the fastest wind-speed on earth, the largest hailstone, and the most rainfall in a day ever recorded.
posted by Shiggedyswa (13 comments total)

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Pfffftt. Almost all of this happened in Minneapolis in, like, one day.
posted by louche mustachio at 6:03 PM on April 5, 2009 [1 favorite]


It's been snowing all weekend here in Denver.
posted by koeselitz at 6:05 PM on April 5, 2009


Get ready for more of this, kids. Global warming doesn't mean that everywhere gets a tiny bit warmer, as if the world had the thermostat turned up a bit. Nope, it's keeping more energy in the system, which means that the kind of roiling one might see in a pot of hot water in which you have dropped some ink will only increase. We'll see not just hotter weather, but more chaotic weather: stronger hurricanes and tornadoes, more powerful winds, changes which are much more sudden than they once were. Even a few especially cold bits here and there.

Very exciting for meteorologists. Pity about anyone who lives in a coastal area, in a flood plain, or locales tornadoes are known to frequent.
posted by adipocere at 6:07 PM on April 5, 2009


more like global $SOMETHING_OTHER_THAN_COOLING amirite?
posted by DU at 6:09 PM on April 5, 2009


I can't imagine what it might be like to get 73 inches of rain in a single day. One time I went through a storm that rained 6 inches in a single day, and that was astounding.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 6:10 PM on April 5, 2009


I remember one day it snowed in Southtown. It was the year there almost wasn't a Christmas, when Santa thought about taking a holiday on the one day he actually works. It turned out he was just fucking with us and we all go presents, anyway.
posted by stavrogin at 6:12 PM on April 5, 2009 [1 favorite]


s/COOLING/WARMING/g but seriously, it wasn't that funny to begin with.
posted by DU at 6:13 PM on April 5, 2009


A few years ago, on vacation to Ireland, I was given a true appreciation for strange weather. At once, it was raining sideways, snowing upwards, and hailing. Four hours later, it was 70 F with clear blue skies.

I never complain about weather here in the south now. Except for our "Yellow" season we are currently having.
posted by strixus at 6:19 PM on April 5, 2009


It kinda gives me a bad taste when it's apparent they're just pilfering pics from other sites, like the Spearfish image being the same as regionalmedicalclinic.com, same dimensions and with same drop shadow. The Doppler On Wheels is credited Jim Reed of Getty Images. It's all monetized with Google Adsense with a Digg box tucked in the bottom. I'm not sure this is the quality that MeFi should be aiming for.
posted by crapmatic at 6:21 PM on April 5, 2009


From the article: Between 15 and 16 March 1952, Cilaos at the center of the Island Réunion received 1,869.9 mm (73.6 in) of rainfall...

That's quite amazing. How is that even possible?
posted by FishBike at 6:22 PM on April 5, 2009


I call shenanigans. OP has been around a week, this is his first post, three comments, no site participation before, one link post to a weak site.
posted by seanmpuckett at 6:24 PM on April 5, 2009


1) Harvest content from wikipedia.
2) Repackage as top ten list.
3) ???
4) Profit!
posted by googly at 6:28 PM on April 5, 2009


OP also posted this to Digg 11 days ago, another link to the same weblog in General Mayhem last month, yet more SuperTightStuff to Digg in February, and so on and so forth. Big SuperTightstuff fan or spammy contributor?
posted by brownpau at 6:49 PM on April 5, 2009


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