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The Quality of American Education

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Anything wrong with this map?  Good grief. 

Lightning Fréquency Across the Contiguous United States

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click to enlarge From our colleagues at Vaisala is this map of lightning frequency across the U.S. The high frequency in the central and southern Great Plains is somewhat conditional. None of the years involved were drought years in this region. The high frequency in Gulf Coast states is more or less constant.

Locations of Category 5 Hurricane Landfalls

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click to enlarge Monday, I wrote about F-5 tornadoes. Today, with hurricane season a month away, here is a map of the location of landfalls of Category 5 hurricanes. I found it interesting. 

Sunday Fun

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Sadness: "Can You Name a Country?"

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