Where Is the Most Lightning-Prone Place in the World?
Lake Maracaibo in
Venezuela has a new claim to fame: This large bay has been revealed as the
lightning capital of the world, with storms lighting up the skies almost 300 nights
each year, according to a NASA study.
The largest lake
in South America, Lake Maracaibo sits along the northern Andes Mountains, where
the mountains form a natural barrier, pushing air up and mixing it with warm,
moist air above the lake to create nocturnal thunderstorms. Researchers found
that the lake gets per square mile (233 bolts per square kilometer) every year.
The previous
titleholder, the city of Kabare in the Democratic Republic of Congo, gets 531
lightning bolts per square mile (205 bolts per square kilometer) annually"Lake
Maracaibo has a unique geography and climatology that is ideal for the
development of thunderstorms," Dennis Buechler, a research scientist at
the University of Alabama in Huntsville.Lightning occurs in thunderstorms when
cold air and warm air interact. The cold air has ice crystals. The warm air has
water droplets. Friction from the droplets and crystals bumping together
creates positive and negative electrical charges in the clouds. When the
negative charges at the bottom of the clouds get strong enough, electrical energy is let out in in the form of lightning that jumps to
another positive structure on the ground or in the clouds.
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green the public city. Friction from the droplets and crystals bumping together
creates positive and negative electrical charges in the clouds. When the
negative charges at the bottom of the clouds get strong enough, electrical energy is let out in in the form of lightning that jumps to
another positive structure on the ground or in
Sumarry : Researchers found that the lake gets per
square mile (233 bolts per square kilometer) every year. Friction from the
droplets and crystals bumping together creates positive and negative electrical
charges in the clouds.
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