Imagine you are standing by the world’s biggest storm, with 28 strikes per minute and never seems to stop. It can go on for 10 hours at a time and over 260 days per year. Now take into account that this phenomenon is actually happening right now in Venezuela. It is named the Catatumbo River Storm.
The first things that I thought of to explain this freak storm were these three questions: What is the climate in Venezuela? What is in its surroundings?Is there something in the air? I researched these questions and the answer to these questions are that the climate in Venezuela has normally warm lowlands and chilly highlands.The temperature averages 69 F and doesn't change drastically from each season.The inches of rain per year are around …show more content…
What is the reason for that? It turns out that when it goes through moisture or dust,some of the bright light is diffracted causing it to look like a different color.Some people also say that it is silent but this is just a trick of nature.The slow moving speed of sound compared to light causes thunder to not travel as far as light.I also thought when did this phenomenon start? The answer to that is this peculiar phenomenon has been known for at least a thousand years.People from there once called it rib a-ba,or the river of fire,and thought it was a sign from the gods.Later,the bright lights was used as navigation to sailors at night.They called it the Maracaibo Beacon and the Lighthouse of Catatumbo.The storm has also changed history itself.It was incorporated in the loss of two historical invasions of Venezuela.The lightning first sold out Sir Francis Drake in 1595,lighting up the sky and giving away the night invasion.In 1823,The lightning once again ruined an invasion when it gave away a Spanish fleet concealed by the darkness during the Venezuelan War of Independence.Last but not least I thought of the reason why this happens.The reason (or reasons) scientists have thought of for this land's odd amount of storms have been pondered on for a while.In the 1960's it was brought up that the uranium settling in the rock brought more strikes.More recently they thought that the electricity was
The first things that I thought of to explain this freak storm were these three questions: What is the climate in Venezuela? What is in its surroundings?Is there something in the air? I researched these questions and the answer to these questions are that the climate in Venezuela has normally warm lowlands and chilly highlands.The temperature averages 69 F and doesn't change drastically from each season.The inches of rain per year are around …show more content…
What is the reason for that? It turns out that when it goes through moisture or dust,some of the bright light is diffracted causing it to look like a different color.Some people also say that it is silent but this is just a trick of nature.The slow moving speed of sound compared to light causes thunder to not travel as far as light.I also thought when did this phenomenon start? The answer to that is this peculiar phenomenon has been known for at least a thousand years.People from there once called it rib a-ba,or the river of fire,and thought it was a sign from the gods.Later,the bright lights was used as navigation to sailors at night.They called it the Maracaibo Beacon and the Lighthouse of Catatumbo.The storm has also changed history itself.It was incorporated in the loss of two historical invasions of Venezuela.The lightning first sold out Sir Francis Drake in 1595,lighting up the sky and giving away the night invasion.In 1823,The lightning once again ruined an invasion when it gave away a Spanish fleet concealed by the darkness during the Venezuelan War of Independence.Last but not least I thought of the reason why this happens.The reason (or reasons) scientists have thought of for this land's odd amount of storms have been pondered on for a while.In the 1960's it was brought up that the uranium settling in the rock brought more strikes.More recently they thought that the electricity was