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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.
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.
Weather can be tranquil or terrifying, and some frightening phenomena are so rare that many humans have never seen them. 'Atmospheric Rivers' and Other Truly Bizarre Weather Phenomena Skip to main ...
Anomalous weather (19 P) Pages in category "Unexplained phenomena" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
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 ...
Newly ice-free stretches in the Arctic. Record droughts punctuated by record deluges. ... The AMS pointed to other strange phenomena: the supercell thunderstorm in northern Italy that dropped a ...
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.
For centuries, April 1, or April Fools' Day as it's known, has been a day full of pranks, hoaxes and plain old practical jokes. Sometimes, even if the date isn't April 1, it can appear like Mother ...