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gabba · « **Reply #120 on:** May 20, 2014, 07:33:04 PM »

Lol there are many people in this world who could eat cat or dog. This you definately can't eat.

Babs · « **Reply #121 on:** May 20, 2014, 08:25:55 PM »

Dang back goes on the thinking cap

gabba · « **Reply #122 on:** May 21, 2014, 12:58:02 PM »

Ok Big clue time

This is more a result of a weather condition (cold) than specifically a weather type answer. The first word is an animal similar but not the same as a moose

Babs · « **Reply #123 on:** May 21, 2014, 01:27:40 PM »

Deer rain

Elk weather

Goose hail

gabba · « **Reply #124 on:** May 21, 2014, 03:51:48 PM »

Last one has the first word right (a white peg in Mastermind!).

It's a condition that people get, not a weather condition

Babs · « **Reply #125 on:** May 21, 2014, 04:46:31 PM »

All I can think of is googe bumps

( you would have thrown me off your team by now!)

Mark · « **Reply #126 on:** May 21, 2014, 05:49:22 PM »

don't know

gabba · « **Reply #127 on:** May 21, 2014, 07:18:08 PM »

I'll take that especially as I don't know what google bumps are like. They sound horrible

Answer: goose bumps

Next question, and entirely unrelated to weather, to be fair

What colour are polar bear hairs, and can you explain why they appear to be white( so the hint here is that White would be the wrong answer)

TokWW · « **Reply #128 on:** May 21, 2014, 07:26:44 PM »

They are clear - colourless.

gabba · « **Reply #129 on:** May 21, 2014, 07:34:13 PM »

Correct, so why do they appear white?

Babs · « **Reply #130 on:** May 22, 2014, 07:56:11 AM »

Reflection?

TokWW · « **Reply #131 on:** May 22, 2014, 10:01:09 AM »

They are hollow tubular fur fibres and the inside surfaces capture light and reflect it back out to appear as light - emitting white light. I think...

gabba · « **Reply #132 on:** May 22, 2014, 05:32:05 PM »

Correct and well done TokWW.

Next question

How heavy was the heaviest hailstone ever recorded, and where did it fall?

Babs · « **Reply #133 on:** May 22, 2014, 05:47:22 PM »

48 kgs in Japan ( that was one wild guess)

gabba · « **Reply #134 on:** May 22, 2014, 06:04:04 PM »

Hmmm a sack of cement falling from a typical height of a cb would be impressive but no. Sorry.

It is a round figure and country of landing will do just fine!

Babs · « **Reply #135 on:** May 23, 2014, 09:17:45 AM »

America, everything big lands there

gabba · « **Reply #136 on:** May 23, 2014, 10:43:02 AM »

haha - I did think of mentioning that it wasn't in Texas ;-)

Babs · « **Reply #137 on:** May 23, 2014, 11:47:41 AM »

so was I right?

gabba · « **Reply #138 on:** May 23, 2014, 12:43:56 PM »

no no no no no noooo!

Actually it was in a place that I wouldn't have immediately thought of - at a guess it's probably the country along with China, and maybe greater Russia, that has the most extreme conditions, especially so given it's size. There is an ocean named after the country

David · « **Reply #139 on:** May 23, 2014, 01:03:48 PM »

From memory the heaviest hail ever recorded was in Bangladesh. Though there is no ocean named after Bangladesh as far as I know!

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