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Weather hazards
- LightningLightning can kill people it never actually hits. Current spreads through the ground and up one leg.
- ThunderstormA typical thunderstorm lifts roughly 500 million kilograms of water vapor. Its energy can rival the Hiroshima bomb.
- HailHail killed more than 200 people in India's Moradabad district on the 30th of April 1888.
- BlizzardA blizzard is defined by wind, not by how much snow falls. Ground blizzards happen with no new snow at all.
- SnowMount Baker Ski Area in Washington had a record 2,896 centimeters of snow in 1998 to 1999.
- TornadoA single tornado in 1925 traveled 219 miles across three states without lifting off the ground. It killed 695 people.
- Tropical cycloneA hurricane, a typhoon and a cyclone can be the same storm. It changes names by crossing an imaginary line.
- FloodA flash flood killed eight people at a canyon waterfall with no observed rain.
- StormJupiter's Great Red Spot storm has raged for at least 340 years. It is larger than the entire Earth.
- DroughtThe longest drought in recorded history started 400 years ago in Chile's Atacama Desert. It continues to this day.
- Extreme weatherCyclone Amphan in 2020 killed 120 people, while a 1970 cyclone of similar size killed 300,000.
- El Niño–Southern OscillationThe strongest El Niño on record, as of early 2026, struck in 1877 and 1878. It led to a global famine that killed more than 50 million people, about 3-4 percent of everyone alive. El Niño is the warm half of the El Niño-Southern…