There have been many destructive hailstorms in the United States. One on July 6, 1878, at central New York extended into parts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Stones fell recorded to measure 7 inches in diameter.
ROTARY MOTIONS OF STORMS
Benjamin Franklin has been given credit for the discovery that storms have a rotary motion, and that they move from west to east. This discovery was made in 1747.
Franklin did not positively prove these facts, and it remained for Redfield, Espy, Maury, Abbe to substantiate the truth of this statement.
THE FIRST UNITED STATES WEATHER BUREAU
The first United States Weather Bureau was established in 1870. General Albert J. Myer was the first chief of the United States Weather Bureau.
It is estimated that we are 250,000 miles from the moon.
At high altitudes, the cover of a kettle must be weighted down in order to boil an egg hard. This is to enable the pressure of steam to allow temperature high enough for boiling. In other words, it would be impossible to boil an egg in an open vessel at a high altitude.
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