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Uncommon card · Nature
Extreme weather, an Uncommon card
Extreme weather includes unexpected, unusual, severe, or unseasonal weather, weather at the extremes of the historical distribution, the range that has been seen in the past.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 91
- Power
- 170
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 55,000
Power 170 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Extreme weather quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Extreme weather card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Extreme events are based on a location's ______ weather history.
Answer
recorded. Extreme events are based on a location's recorded weather history. From the Extreme weather article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
List of national monuments of the United States. List of national monuments of the United States 120,000 · Coccinella septempunctata 77,000 · Extreme weather 55,000 · Geology of Mars 21,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Extreme events are based on a location's recorded weather history.
- The main types of extreme weather include heat waves, cold waves, droughts, and heavy precipitation or storm events, such as tropical cyclones.
- Extreme weather can have various effects, from natural hazards such as floods and landslides to social costs on human health and the economy.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Extreme weather article was read about 55,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 91: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Extreme weather
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Extreme weather (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Daphne Zaras, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
