a couple of minutes on the internet and I came up with this.
Yeah, it shows…
bear in mind that these are AVERAGE, i.e. normal for these location on an annual basis. These are not record highs or lows.
Really? What about your Hottest annual average temp factoid for example?
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Driest average place on Earth - 0.1 mm per year.
Atacama Desert, Chile
and…. Yuma Arizona (USA) is the sunniest place in the world. It experiences an average of 4,055 hours of sunshine each year (out of a possible 4,456 hours).
Hottest annual average temperature- mean temperature of 34.4 °C.
· "Between
1960 and 1966, the highest average annual mean temperature in Dallol, Ethiopia was recorded at 94 °F"… C’mon weatherpro, don’t leave out important facts…
Hail annual average - 132 days each year.
Keriche, Kenya
Yeah, hail is really dangerous…that’s why our football players wear helmets….
Highest rainfall annual average - 523.6 inches, more than 40 feet (13 meters).
Lloro, Colombia
…Ok, so it rains there…haven’t heard of many floods in that area…you? Now, The wettest place in the world
(based on the average number of rainy days received each year) is Mt Wai-'ale-'ale in Hawaii. The summit is 1,569m (5,148ft) above sea level and receives over 350 days of rain each year…and to be fair, the most consistently wet place in Australia is Waratah, (TAS) with an average of 314 'rainy days' per year.
Windiest place on Earth at sea level – average wind speed of 44mph.
Cape Denison – Antarctica
I’ll give ya that one but…So…
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Ok..Lets analyze this….
During any given minute there are 1000 thunderstorms happening around the world. Now, since water takes up 70%-ish of the worlds surface we can assume that 30% of those storms take place on land. That’s 300 per minute.
Actually there are 1,800 happening around the world per minute.
The USA experiences 10,000 per year. Thats 0.02 per minute.
Sorry wrong again Weatherman, your math is wrong…why? Because the US experiences 100,000 per year.
So every 50 minutes the USA experiences 1 thunderstorm (on average) and there are 15,000 taking place in the world as a whole during this time.
Not quite…Because of your error above, this is also wrong. Plus you probably included those thunderstorms which occurred in the US in your world figure so, you need to adjust accordingly. Most importantly, you are thinking in simplistic terms here.. You are ASSUMING again that other storms are evenly distributed amongst the other 192 countries in the world…What you compare here is the U.S. against the collective world. That was never the basis of my argument.
So, Every 5 minutes there is a thunderstorm in the US and 8,999 every 5 minutes taking place through out the world. But of course, a good portion of those occur over water.
So the USA experiences 0.0067% of the worlds thunderstorms but takes up a massive 6.25% of the worlds land mass.
If the thunderstoms were spread evenly accross the world then you should, in theory, get 6.25% of them. (correct me is i am wrong)..
Ok, I’ll correct you. A. As stated above you are assuming that all countries are equal… This is almost as bad as thinking that the U.S. is a freaking continent…B. Stick to the facts, i.e. not If this or If that…
The fact is this: as a country the USA is far, far less likely to encounter a thunderstorm than in any other country in the world.
This goes to show that the USA experiences a lot less thunderstorms (on average mind) that the rest of the world, in fact the discrepancy is huge, some 900 times smaller in reality.
This info is on the CIA website btw.
You analysis means means very little for your theory is riddled with half truths and inaccuracies (However, I know this was “tongue in cheek” analysis……Besides, my argument, I believe was “most extreme” or “violent weather” on average in ONE country. You provide averages, some record in a specific period like 6 years etc… If this is your classic stuff, I would encourage you to come up with a NEW product….Oh, never referred to the “CIA” website for my “weather info”….but “tsunamis, volcanoes, and earthquake activity around Pacific Basin; hurricanes along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts; tornadoes in the midwest and southeast; mud slides in California; forest fires in the west; flooding; permafrost in northern Alaska, a major impediment to development” quite a vast array of weather here in the U.S….
