Afternoon and evening thunderstorms produced severe weather in Oklahoma and west Texas. In Oklahoma, a thunderstorm at Seiling produced three inches of rain in one hour, golf ball size hail, and wind gusts to 60 mph which collapsed a tent at the state fair injuring nine persons.
Amazing fact: Lightning
The Empire State Building in New York is sometimes struck by lightning hundreds of times each because it doesn't have a lightning conductor.
Amazing fact: May
May is the month with fewest tropical storms across the globe. On average, only about 40-50 tropical storms form globally per 100 years during May, about one every two years.
Amazing fact: The temperature at Honolulu and Hawaii
The temperature at Honolulu, Hawaii, reached 94 degrees to establish an all-time record at that location.
Amazing fact: Flash Flood warning
Flash Flood Warning - Flash flooding is occurring, imminent or highly likely. A flash flood is a flood that occurs within 6 hours of excessive rainfall and that poses a threat to life and/or property. Ice jams and dam failures can also cause flash floods. These warnings are issued on a county by county basis by the local Weather Forecast Office in Chicago/Romeoville and are generally in effect for up to 6 hours.
Amazing fact: The early season
A second early season snowstorm produced eleven inches at Wilkes Barre PA and 26 inches at Auburn NY. All the mountains in the northeastern U.S. were whitened with snow.
