A rare June severe weather outbreak is expected Wednesday across the Southeast, where destructive winds, damaging hail and strong tornadoes are all possible. The severe storms could even meet the criteria for a widespread damaging-wind event known as a derecho.
The Perseids Meteor Shower would not be much of a show due to this cosmic occurrence. The Perseids Meteor shower is an annual tradition for the world, as it so happens that the Earth is completing a full circle and going to the region of the old space rock that saw the destruction.
While lightning technically has no temperature, its electrical current can heat the air around it and any object the current passes through to be up to five times hotter than the surface of the sun.