AccuWeather celebrates National Trivia Day with facts, figures about our weather
(STATE COLLEGE, PA, JAN. 4, 2001) - Today is National Trivia Day. The expert meteorologists at AccuWeather and AccuWeather.com, the worlds leading commercial weather service have done their part to make this a festive day by coming up with a series of weather related facts for Americans to ponder as they celebrate.
The fastest wind speed ever recorded was 318 mph during a May 3, 1999 tornado in Oklahoma.
An analysis of climatological data dating back to 1946 shows that Saturdays are 22% rainier than Mondays.
On average, 100,000 thunderstorms hit the U.S. mainland in a typical year, causing about 1,000 tornadoes, and killing an average of 42 people.
Benjamin Franklin recorded the July 4, 1776 temperature at Philadelphia, PA to be 76 degrees.
AccuWeather meteorologists Elliot Abrams and Dr. Joe Sobel have each done more than half a million radio weather broadcasts.
The "windiest" U.S. city is Mt. Washington, NH, where the wind speed averages 35.3 miles per hour. The highest recorded wind speed there was 231 mph. It is also the coldest mainland US city, with an average daily low temperature of 19.8 degrees.
AccuWeather has the largest number of meteorologists 100 - forecasting at one location anywhere on the planet.
The "snowiest" U.S. city is Stampede Pass, WA, with an average annual snowfall of 440.3 inches. (Mt. Washington, NH, is the third snowiest with an average of 253.9 inches).
AccuWeather was the first to introduce 7-day forecasts, 10-day forecasts, and most recently, in 2001, 15-day forecasts.
The coldest U.S. city, on average, is Barrow, AK, where the daily low temperature averages 4.1 degrees. The hottest U.S. city on average is Yuma, AZ, where the daily high temperature averages 87.9 degrees.
AccuWeather.com and AccuWeather New Media provide more Internet weather content than any other provider. They provide content to more than 1,200 sites, with an estimated total of more than 500 million page views per month.
The coldest US temperature ever recorded was -80 at Prospect Creek, AK, on Jan. 23, 1971. The coldest temperature recorded on the U.S. mainland was -61 at Maybell, CO, on Feb. 1, 1985.
AccuWeather founder and president Dr. Joel N Myers has been named by the Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history.
The highest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. was 134 degrees at Greenland Ranch in Californias Death Valley.
The most precipitation ever in the U.S. in a 24-hour period was an estimated 43 inches at Alvin, TX, on Jul 25-26, 1979. The greatest verified precipitation amount in a 24-hour period was 38.7 inches at Yankeetown, FL, on Sept. 5, 1950.
AccuWeather was the first company to provide electronically transmitted , black-and-white newspaper weather pages, and the first, four-color, electronically transmitted newspaper weather pages
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