Have you ever heard of Catatumbo Lightning? Catatumbo Lightning is a strange phenomenon that occurs in the earth's atmosphere. Catatumbo lightning Lightning is a phenomenon that continues to grab with a high intensity. Even more lightning could reach 400,000 a year. This phenomenon is found in the Venezuelan state.
After centuries - Lightning Catatumbo continuous appeared, in January 2010 Catatumbo Lightning had not appeared. Many would have thought if Catatumbo Lightning will not appear - appear again. And until in April 2010, Catatumbo Lightning reappeared. Later revealed that the drought was the cause Catatumbo Lightning could not emerge - emerge.
Catatumbo Lightning Catatumbo located at the mouth of the river, more precisely in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. Thunderstorms are grabbing any chance intensity enough to make me shook his head. Just imagine, these lightning - average snatched up for 10 hours a day, and within an hour, it can be snatched up lightning - average up to 280 times in a single swoop hours. Can you imagine how many times lightning Catatumbo snatched in a day!
And more amazing again, within one year, lightning could grab up to 140 to 160 days from 365 days a year. And the lightning - average height of 5 km to grab with. It is amazing is not it?
Catatumbo The study also said that the Lightning is a producer of ozone with the highest percentage in the world, of all places in the world. Because Catatumbo Lightning can produce about 1.176 million kW of electricity in the atmosphere.
Yukpa ancient society in the country believe that the flashes of blue, white, and pink Catatumbo Lightning, occurs when the lightning - lightning meet with the spirits of the ancestors. For many - you make the most of the sailors were using Catatumbo Lightning as a navigation tool of nature so that they do not get lost in the ocean. Because Catatumbo Lightning can be seen from great distances, even hundreds of miles away it. Therefore Catatumbo Lightning is also often called Lighthouse of Maracaibo or her in the Indonesian language Lighthouse Maracaibo
Catatumbo Lightning is said to have existed since centuries - ago. The historical record on its own Lightning Catatumbo first recorded in 1597 in an epic poem written by Lope de Vega called La Dragontea.
Alexander von Humboldt, a Prussian naturalist, Catatumbo Lightning once described as "electrical explosions like phosphorescent light." A Geography of Italy by the name of Agustin Codazzi, Catatumbo Lightning once described as "lightning that seems to arise from continued Zulia river and surrounding areas."
Study on Lightning Catatumbo first performed by Melchor Centeno. Then in 1966 until 1970, scientists Andrew Zavrostky made three expeditions with the help of the University of Los Andes, which concluded that the area will have episentris in swamp - Swamp of Swamp National Park Juan Manuel de Aguas, Claras Aguas Negras and western Lake Maracaibo. In 1991, he also said that this phenomenon occurs because of the meeting of warm and cold air currents in the area. The study also said that the cause for isolated lightning may be due to the presence of uranium at the base of the rocks.
Later in the year 1997 to 2000, Nelson Falcon made several expeditions and produce from Catatumbo Lightning microphysics model that identifies that the methane was the cause Catatumbo Lightning. But that theory is still considered just a speculation.
But lately, the causes of the phenomenon is nontoxic methane gas that evaporates from the swamps and oil deposits.
Below is an illustration of the process of Catatumbo Lightning
Illustration of Catatumbo Lightning
1. Warm Caribbean winds and moist air meets cold Andes. This could create thunderstorms.
2. Methane evaporates from the oil layer in Lake Maracaibo and the swamp of rotting material. Gas was then carried by winds into the clouds.
3. Air currents inside the cloud of methane spread evenly. But gas is still concentrated in the area - a particular area.
4. Under normal conditions, the air in the cloud is the insulation that makes the electrical activity decreases. Methane-making power was weakened. Lightning ensued.
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