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Catatumbo lightning at night. Catatumbo lightning (Spanish: Relámpago del Catatumbo) [1] is an atmospheric phenomenon that occurs over the mouth of the Catatumbo River where it empties into Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. Catatumbo means "House of Thunder" in the language of the Bari people. [2]
On January 31, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced Operation Lightning against "drug trafficking" and "illegal organizations" on the border with Catatumbo. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] The next day, Venezuelan authorities destroyed 3 camps of "illegal armed groups" in Zulia and seized 655 kilogram of cocaine and 1,400 liters of acetone . [ 76 ]
This gives Lake Maracaibo the highest number of lightning strikes per square kilometer in the world, at 250. [6] The region with the second-most is the village Kifuka, in the mountains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, [7] where the elevation is around 1,700 metres (5,600 ft), receives 232 lightning strikes per square kilometer (600 per ...
How many volts are in a lightning strike? A typical lightning bolt carries about 300 million volts and 30,000 amps, according to the NWS. Compare that to the typical household's electric current ...
Losing the dark. Light pollution, the term for the brightening of the night sky by unnatural lights, is increasing worldwide. On average, skies are getting 10% brighter each year globally, with ...
Odisha on Sunday recorded over 5,300 lightning strikes across the state. On 3rd September till 4.30 pm Cloud to Cloud strikes are 3352, whereas Cloud to Ground strikes are 2030 pic.twitter.com ...
It is Venezuela's main oil producing area and an important fishing and agricultural producing area. Eutrophication caused by oil pollution is a major environmental problem facing the lagoon. The area around the lagoon is inhabited by a quarter of the country's population and is also the place with the most frequent lightning on Earth.
Cromwell Police started getting 911 calls around 4:30 p.m. about a lightning strike. When first responders arrived, they found a tree that had been hit and three people who were near it.