What is ball lightning?

A rare glowing sphere seen during storms

Bright spots beside the Sun caused by ice crystals

How can fish or frogs rain from the sky?

Waterspouts lift them and drop them

A thunderstorm with snow instead of rain

What are frost flowers?

Delicate ice formations on plants or sea ice

An underwater ice icicle of salty brine

Unusual Weather Phenomena Quiz With Answers: Test Your Knowledge

This unusual weather phenomena quiz covers ball lightning, fire whirls, sun dogs and halos, frost flowers, raining fish and frogs, haboobs, thundersnow, morning glory clouds and other rare sights. Test your knowledge with 10 questions on strange weather.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Ball
What is ball lightning?
Sun dogs
What are sun dogs?
Fire
What is a fire whirl?
Animals
How can fish or frogs rain from the sky?
Haboob
What is a haboob?
Thundersnow
What is thundersnow?
Morning glory
Where are morning glory roll clouds famous?
Frost flowers
What are frost flowers?
Brinicle
What is a brinicle?
Halo
What causes a halo around the Sun or Moon?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: What is ball lightning?
Answer: A rare glowing sphere seen during storms
Its cause is still debated.
Q2: What are sun dogs?
Answer: Bright spots beside the Sun caused by ice crystals
They are about 22 degrees from the Sun.
Q3: What is a fire whirl?
Answer: A spinning column of fire
Wildfires can create them.
Q4: How can fish or frogs rain from the sky?
Answer: Waterspouts lift them and drop them
It has been reported many times.
Q5: What is a haboob?
Answer: A massive dust storm
They occur in Sudan and Arizona.
Q6: What is thundersnow?
Answer: A thunderstorm with snow instead of rain
It is rare and dramatic.
Q7: Where are morning glory roll clouds famous?
Answer: Northern Australia
Glider pilots ride them.
Q8: What are frost flowers?
Answer: Delicate ice formations on plants or sea ice
They form in still, cold conditions.
Q9: What is a brinicle?
Answer: An underwater ice icicle of salty brine
It can freeze sea creatures in its path.
Q10: What causes a halo around the Sun or Moon?
Answer: Ice crystals in high clouds
It often signals approaching rain.

Unusual Weather Phenomena Quiz – The Strangest Weather

Nature produces some truly unusual weather. Ball lightning appears as glowing spheres, fire whirls spin above wildfires and waterspouts have been known to drop fish and frogs on surprised towns.

Optical effects decorate the sky. Ice crystals create halos and sun dogs, while morning glory clouds roll across northern Australia like giant tubes. Thundersnow combines lightning and snowfall.

Other phenomena happen on the ground or underwater: haboobs sweep deserts with walls of dust, frost flowers bloom on sea ice and brinicles creep down from polar sea ice. Scientists still study many of these rare events.

What This Quiz Teaches

This quiz is for weather fans exploring unusual phenomena.

What ball lightning is
What sun dogs are
How animals rain down
What haboobs are
What brinicles are

Did You Know?

Red rain fell in Kerala in 2001.
Blood Falls in Antarctica runs red.
Catatumbo lightning is nearly constant.
Moonbows appear on bright nights.
Light pillars rise from cold ground lights.