1 2 Dirt mixed 3 16 Worms WRIGGLE UP 17 18 FROM

THE
You can tell the
from UNDERGROUND A THUNDERSTORM PAGES
TEMPERATURE with wind when a FLOOD CAN PRODUCE OF
by COUNTING
a cricket’s
can make dust IS COMING. 160kmph WINDS.
storms called
CHIRPS.
black blizzards. 19 20 A MUDSLIDE
A whiteout, CAN CARRY
5 or heavy
ROCKS, TREES,
4 The coldest
snowfall that
temperature ever
makes it VEHICLES
difficult to see, AND ENTIRE
officially recorded A WILDFIRES SOMETIMES CREATE TORNADOES can make you BUILDINGS.
was -89.2° C. HEAT MADE OF FIRE CALLED FIRE WHIRLS. feel sick.

WAVE 6 21 22
In ANTARCTICA,
CAN Mild autumn weather often 7 A 2003 heatwave About In 1972, a SNOW can fall
turned grapes to raisins 2,000 so hard YOU
MAKE means BIGGER SPIDERS in our
homes. before they were thunder-
blizzard dumped
CAN’T SEE your
TRAIN picked from the vine. storms 8m of hand IN FRONT

30 FREAKY WEATHER
TRACKS rain down snowfall OF YOUR FACE.
BEND. on Earth on Iran, burying
every 200 villages.
minute.

FACTS
ABOUT
8 9 10 Cape Farewell in 11 23 24 Black ice, 25
RAINDROPS can GREENLAND SOME TORNADOES
CAN BE FASTER THAN a transparent
In July 2001 be the SIZE OF is the windiest coating of ice
the rainfall A HOUSEFLY WATERSPOUTS, FORMULA ONE
in Kerala, place on the planet. on a surface, can
and fall OR ROTATING RACING CARS. make pavements
India, COLUMNS OF AIR super-slippery.
was at more than 12 OVER WATER, Some frogs get noisier just before it rains.
blood red. 30kmph. CAN MAKE SEA
CREATURES RAIN
DOWN FROM 26 27 The most 28
Lightning THE SKY.
13 SANDSTORMS CAN often follows a
damage ever
caused by a
IN 1684, IT WAS
SO COLD IN
volcanic eruption. thunderstorm BRITAIN THAT THE
SWALLOW UP In 525 B.C. a SANDSTORM BURIED
was in 1995, when
hailstones bigger
RIVER THAMES
ENTIRE CITIES. 14 15 hundreds of SOLDIERS in than cricket balls
FROZE SOLID FOR
TWO MONTHS.
an EGYPTIAN DESERT. fell in Texas, USA.

29 30
CATS AND DOGS HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO Hurricanes
SENSE WHEN A TORNADO IS APPROACHING. can push
BLIZZARDS
can make more than
SNOWFLAKES 6m of
FEEL LIKE PELLETS A hurricane in Florida, water
hitting your face. USA, caused 900 captive ashore.
pythons to escape.
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