English translation: Lightning strikes over the Catatumbo river in Venezuela for up to 200 days a ye...
English translation:
Lightning strikes over the Catatumbo river in Venezuela for up to 200 days a year. About 10 hours a day at an altitude of more than five km in the sky flashing thousands (about 28 per minute) electrical discharges break out, moreover, lightning is not accompanied by thunder - they flash and go out to the sound of the river. According to one version, in this area there is a large number of swamps. Swamps emit methane which goes up. In this case, the gas distribution is not always occurs uniformly, and the concentration of ions in the air contributes to the ignition of the gas, due to which lightning is formed.
Lightning strikes over the Catatumbo river in Venezuela for up to 200 days a year. About 10 hours a day at an altitude of more than five km in the sky flashing thousands (about 28 per minute) electrical discharges break out, moreover, lightning is not accompanied by thunder - they flash and go out to the sound of the river. According to one version, in this area there is a large number of swamps. Swamps emit methane which goes up. In this case, the gas distribution is not always occurs uniformly, and the concentration of ions in the air contributes to the ignition of the gas, due to which lightning is formed.
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