Tornadoes can rotate at up to 500 km/h — and can travel hundreds of miles.

Lightning can heat air hotter than the surface of the Sun.

Fact #1807 · Nature

Lightning is hotter than the Sun.

Fact #1698 · Nature

A derecho is a line of severe thunderstorms producing damaging straight-line winds — often mistaken for tornadoes.

Fact #7833 · Nature

Lightning can travel from the ground up into clouds.

Fact #255 · Nature

The sandbox tree (Hura crepitans) explodes when ripe, flinging seeds up to 45 meters at over 70 km/h.

Fact #5168 · Nature

Bioluminescent forests — trees glowing in the dark — have been filmed in Brazil using extremely sensitive cameras.

Fact #7442 · Nature

Aerogel is the world's lightest solid, so insulating it can hold a flower over a blowtorch.

Fact #3328 · Nature

Thunder is a sonic boom caused by superheated air expanding faster than sound.

Fact #5826 · Nature