Russian winter and a killer tornado. Record weather is killing in these places
According to the server Meteorological center however, it has a record temperature measured in the shade of 57.8 °C and was recorded in September 1922 in Libya and in August 1933 in Mexico.
Winter like in Russia. Or in Antarctica
It is not so clear even with the record cold, but it is certain that it was measured in Antarctica. The lowest temperature was shown by the thermometer at the Vostok station on July 21, where the values dropped to -89.2 °C. In August 2010, satellite measurements showed that it even dropped to -93 °C on the ridge of the East Antarctic Plateau.
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In the Antarctic wasteland, the frost value is just a number. However, in the Russian village of Ojmyakon, home to about 500 people, a temperature of -71°C was recorded in 1933, which is the lowest temperature ever recorded in a populated place. This is a record value, but local residents are used to the fact that the thermometer drops to -50 °C in winter. That’s when children stop going to school, and if they want to go somewhere in the evening by car, they start it in the morning because of the battery. Burials are also a problem – digging a grave in winter takes up to three days.
The inhabitants here are very resistant, because the village of Ojmjakon, located in the Far East, also holds another record – the highest extreme temperature fluctuations. In the summer, up to 35 °C above zero was measured there, the difference between the temperatures in summer and winter is more than 100 degrees Celsius.
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Hold on to your hats
Even the wind has its records. It reaches its highest speed in shocks at the transitions of tropical cycles and in high mountains.
The strongest recorded wind blew on April 10, 1996 on the Australian island of Barrow Island, where Cyclone Olivia rushed. It reached a speed of almost 408 km/h. Although he gradually weakened over the continent, he still destroyed what he could. After a long 62 years, the wind, which in 1934 swept past the American mountain station Mount Washington at a speed of about 372 km/h, lost its primacy.
Even in the Czech mountains it can blow nicely. So far, the strongest gust of wind was recorded in February 2020 on Sněžka in the Giant Mountains. The devices then measured a value of 223 km/h.
A killer funnel
A tornado is dangerous in itself, and if a record is also broken, it is already considered. This is the case of the Tri-State tornado, which swept through the US states of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana on March 18, 1925. “Due to its rapid movement, monstrous size and long track, the tornado claimed hundreds of lives and injured thousands,” writes the US National Weather Service.
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The length of the Tri-State route reached 219 kilometers, the width in places was more than a kilometer. The phenomenon lasted for three and a half hours, the tornado was rushing at a speed of up to one hundred kilometers and during the whole time it devastated cities, villages and the countryside in its reach. It claimed 695 lives, over two thousand injured and destroyed 15 thousand houses.
For the deadliest tornado is believed to be Daulatpur-Saturia, which struck Bangladesh in the early evening of April 26, 1989. The trail of the tornado was about 10 miles long. It destroyed houses and uprooted trees. Over 1,300 people lost their lives, another 12,000 were injured, and a total of 80,000 residents were left without shelter.
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Torrential rain and hail completed the damage to houses and infrastructure. “Except for a few broken tree trunks, nothing at all was left standing in the affected area,” wrote the Bangladesh Observer.
Ironically, the disaster came a day after Bangladesh’s president urged residents to pray for rain as the country has been in a severe drought for six months.
It rains the most in the Hawaiian paradise
Rain gauges also record all sorts of records. Hawaii’s Kauai is considered to be the rainiest place in the world, with an average of 12,090 millimeters of rain per year. For comparison – in the Czech Republic it is about 678 millimeters per year. On the contrary, in Aswan, Egypt, there is only half a millimeter per year, which is the least on Earth, and Iquique in Chile is also in a bad situation, where they have not recorded any rain at all for 14 long years.
The most rainfall in a single day was recorded on the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, where 1,870 millimeters fell in 24 hours. The heaviest rain again hit Guadeloupe in the Lesser Antilles: 38.1 millimeters of rain fell there in one minute.
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Equally interesting are the data on the amount of snow. While in our country preparations have already started for intensive snowing of the mountain slopes, elsewhere they do not have such worries. For example, on Mount Rainier, the highest peak of the Cascade Mountains located in the American state of Washington, an average of over 31 meters of snow falls annually. The area is therefore rightly found to be the snowiest place in the world.
Attention! Pounds of hail are falling
Unlike snow, hail isn’t romantic at all. Not only do they destroy crops and cars, but they can also be life-threatening. So far, apparently the largest hailstones fell in April 1989 in Bangladesh. She weighed 1.02 kilograms. 92 people lost their lives in the hail at that time.
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Another large hail fell in 1970 in the American city of Coffeyvile. It measured 44 centimeters in circumference, weighed about three quarters of a kilogram, and was hurtling to the ground at a speed of 169 kilometers per hour. In July 2010, an 879 gram hailstone with a diameter of 20.3 cm was recorded in Vivian, South Dakota.
Hail is also dangerous in Europe. This August, a massive hailstorm in Spain killed a 20-month-old child.