A tornado is a rapidly spinning column of air that reaches from a storm cloud all the way down to the ground!
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A rainbow looks like an arc because you’re seeing just part of a perfect circle — formed by sunlight bending and bouncing off raindrops at a special angle!
A lightning strike usually flashes by in less than half a second, and the thunder that follows travels through the air at about 767 miles per hour (1,234 km/h) because that’s how fast sound moves!
Formation & Science
El Niño is like a giant warm bath in the Pacific Ocean that forms when special winds stop pushing warm water toward Asia!
Twinned rainbows are super rare — you get two primary rainbows splitting from the same base, looking like two identical rainbows growing out of one root!