Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 09, 2024

A trio of weather facts. If you don’t like shiitake mushrooms, that’s another downside to lightning.

May the Lord be with you as He is with me.

Haboobs aren’t limited to Arizona. They occur in arid and semi-arid regions in the United States including the states of New Mexico, Texas, California and others. They also occur in other places around the world such as Africa, Australia and the Middle East. The name comes from the Arabic word, “habūb.”

Side note. Spell check wanted to change “Haboobs” to “Ha boobs.”

Today all three are quite interesting to me. :-D

That should be “lightning bolts are the width of a former human thumb”.

I really didn’t know humans could be struck by lightning? I really was shocked when I found out…

My head hurt for days, I just wanted to bury it somewhere soft and warm… I looked at her and it dawned on me, ‘ha-haboobs’. . .

I did not know those facts. Learn something new every day.

Just to be clear, it’s not the width of the lightning bolt you need to fear.

Big Tatas induce my growth.

Fun Fact:

Lightning can reach temps of 50k to 70k degrees F (27.7k to 38.8k C).

… five (or more) times hotter than the surface of the sun.

Decades ago, a researcher wanted to find width of lightning bolts. He put screens above the tops of towers, statues, and other objects likely to be struck. After the lightning strikes, the sizes of the holes would indicate the diameter. My cousin asked how much of the size of the hole was due to the diameter of the lightning bolt, and how much due to the heat and blast effects.

I grew up in Arizona. Those dust storms were more common in the Phoenix area, where I grew up, before the metastatic growth that has happened in the last 50 years. We called them dust storms, not Haboobs. The Weather Channel calls them Haboobs; we called them dust storms.

My wife gets mad if I look at someone else’s haboobs

Thanx to all who have given us these remarks to nipple on.

Not to be confused with habobs which you can cook over a mesquite grill

Why did the meteorologist’s date walk out on him? He was too obsessed with…

The ’shrooms grow faster because lightning scares the shiitake out of them

Arizona dust storms were called just that — dust storms — until the Weather Service need to make weather more interesting with bomb cyclones, etc. Then they became Haboobs.

Lightning causes nitrogen to be released in the atmosphere. That’s why everything looks so green after a thunderstorm. (The water helps a lot too.)

Giant mushroom columns were among the very ealiest life forms on planet Earth. Thought extinct, an underwater patch of them was recently discovered in a remote area.