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“Climate is what we expect,
weather is what we get.”
Mark Twain
Meteorology
"Sunshine is delicious, rain
is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is
really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good
weather." John Ruskin
Government
Meteorological Sites
"The trouble with weather forecasting is
that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to
rely on it." Patrick Young
Meteorological
Trivia
"On average, the United States
experiences 100,000 thunderstorms each year, causing about 1,000
tornadoes. The National Weather Service says an average of 42 people
are killed by tornadoes annually."
Source:
Weather Trivia
Statistics
"The Atacama is a high (most elevations are
over 8000 feet) and cold desert, average temperatures range from 0° to 25°
Celsius (32° to 75° F). Source
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