Weather Whiz: August 9
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How well have you been paying attention to the weather this week? Here are five questions that will test your knowledge.

Ada Wood
ByAda Wood
August 9, 2026Updated: August 9, 2026, 7:13 am EDTPublished: July 19, 2026, 5:00 am EDT
noctilucent cloud

VILNIUS, LITHUANIA - 2024/06/18: Noctilucent clouds, also known as night shining clouds, seen from Vilnius City Center. This cloud-like phenomenon in the upper atmosphere layers, at heights of 70-90 kilometers, from the ground is only visible during astronomical twilight.

(Yauhen Yerchak/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

How well have you been paying attention to the weather this week? Here are five questions that will test your knowledge of what's been going on.

QUESTIONS

  1. A piece of a _______ slammed into the moon at 5,400 mph on Wednesday.
  2. How many wildfires affected the Spokane, Washington area this week — destroying about 850 buildings and forcing the evacuation of around 67,000 people?
  3. Under water rationing measures due to a drought, how many hours at a time will people in Puerto Rico be without running water?
  4. The Gironde wildfire exposed a field full of French and German mortar rounds and armor-piercing shells leftover from what era?
  5. What are Earth's highest clouds called?

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ANSWERS

  1. SpaceX rocket
  2. Three
  3. 48 hours
  4. World War II
  5. Noctilucent clouds

How did you do this week? Come back for more exciting weather questions next week, or risk showing up to trivia night unprepared!

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