Category Archives: Weather

Oct 04 2016
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Food, Weather

Fact #1201: Strawberry poptart sales increase sevenfold when a hurricane is expected.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/business/yourmoney/what-walmart-knows-about-customers-habits.html

Sep 29 2016
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Weather

Fact #1198: Hurricane Faith nearly travelled all the way to the North Pole, making it the northernmost Atlantic tropical cyclone to have ever existed.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Faith

Jun 22 2015
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Consumer, Weather

Fact #884: Weathermen generally over-predict chances of rain, maximizing viewer happiness by increasing their precautions to not get wet. This is called “The Wet Bias”.

Source: http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/21/accuracy-of-three-major-weather-forecasting-services/

Jan 18 2013
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Weather

Fact #277: The fastest temperature rise ever recorded was 49°F in two minutes in Spearfish, South Dakota, on January 22, 1943.

Source: http://www.supertightstuff.com/03/25/pictures/tight-pictures/ten-cases-of-extreme-weather/

Oct 30 2012
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Geography, Natural World, Weather

Fact #223: The only difference between a hurricane, cyclone and typhoon is where in the world they are.

Oct 29 2012
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Finance, Weather

Fact #222: Hurricane Sandy has caused the NYSE to be closed for two days, the first two-day weather closure since the Great Blizzard of 1888.

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