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Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations, but three characteristics are generally needed: a temperature or moisture boundary, moisture, and (in the event of severe, precipitation-based events) instability in the atmosphere.
Though the word waterspout sounds harmless or even cute, these natural phenomenon can range from mild (if the weather isn't too extreme) to dangerous, tornado-like columns of air and water mist ...
Anomalous weather (19 P) Pages in category "Unexplained phenomena" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
Illustration of St. Elmo's fire on a ship at sea Electrostatic discharge flashes across the windscreen of a KC-10 cockpit.. St. Elmo's fire (also called witchfire or witch's fire) [1] is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a corona discharge from a rod-like object such as a mast, spire, chimney, or animal horn [2] in an atmospheric electric field.
An unusual weather phenomenon happened in the middle of the night around Lubbock, Texas. Temperatures, which had fallen into the lower 70s F at 3:30 a.m. CDT, suddenly spiked into the lower 90s in ...
Record-setting weather events have made global headlines throughout 2020, but some strange phenomena have slipped through the cracks, some of which have taken on frightening nicknames that make ...
The phenomena lasted over an hour, the illusion changing every moment in its character. Here the described mirages of vessels "could only be seen with the aid of a telescope ". It is often the case when observing a Fata Morgana that one needs to use a telescope or binoculars to really make out the mirage.
Here are six weather events that might seem like April Fools' jokes, but, in fact, really happened: Funnel appearing in thick plume of smoke from the Loyalton Fire is seen in Lassen County, Calif.