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54-year-old Budimir Buda Sobat of Croatia just broke a Guinness World Record, for holding his breath submerged underwater for 24 minutes and 33 seconds. How is this possible? Before his record-breaking feat, he was allowed to breathe 100% oxygen for thirty minutes before submerging himself...

A swimmer from the Czech Republic just set a record that most people would describe as absolutely crazy. He’s 38-years-old  --- he swam over 265 feet under a frozen lake. It was frozen on the surface but a cool 37* under the 12"-thick ice – and this guy swam in it...

The amount of snow encompassing the United States this week is wild. As Iowans, we are accustomed to dealing with deep drifts and bitter cold every winter. But other parts of the nation are not. As of 2/16, 73% of the country had snow on the ground... Read More ...

Spring is less than 30 days away. Which means there's still plenty of time for more SNOW. According to the below chart from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet, Waterloo has accumulated over 43" of snow since October 1, 2020. That's nearly 10" above average, but still 16...

The wind chill temperature is a “feels like” temperature. It is how cold people and animals feel when outside. According to the National Weather Service: As the wind increases, it draws heat from the body, driving down skin temperature and eventually the internal body temperature...

On February 3, 1996, the town of Elkader, in Clayton County, tied a state record with a frigid temperature of -47*. **The town of Washta (Cherokee County) also claims that it was also -47* in 1912.  A day later, the city of Tower, MN, set a record of -60*...

Check out this unofficial world record for the most loops by an unpowered toy car. 5MadMovieMakers created a string of 10 Hot Wheels loops into a downhill run, and the car successfully blasted through all of them. The previous world record was eight loops...

Nearly two feet of snow fell to start the new year

The snow is supposed to stop around noon, according to meteorologists. This lead me to wonder how bad the winters in Iowa can get. So, I fell down a major weather rabbit hole trying to figure out Iowa's history with snowfall. Today, with this snowfall the city of Des Moines actually broke a record set back in 1895. On January 25th, 10.3 inches of snow fell on the capital city, which is only the second time that the capital has gotten more than 10 inches on this specific date in over a hundred years.

Kelvin the Menga Man, destroyed all previous records when he stacked 1,002 Jenga pieces onto a single vertical block. The build took him 40 minutes. This shattered the old record of 485 pieces.