If You've Never Seen Edge of Rain, That's Why

wow a giant roiling mountain of a thunder cloud is moving towards you it's completely black and goes in stark contrast with a bright blue sky right above and behind you you see a blinding flash and in a few seconds a deafening whip-like crack of thunder and then the rain starts gushing down from the heavens the wind rises you see treetops bending low towards the ground some miles away and getting closer by the second you freeze in place realizing you can't escape anyway but when the rain almost reaches you its movement suddenly stops just a few feet before you there's a veritable flood but right where you stand it's dry and even sunny and after a short while the angry thunder cloud spills its last drops and disperses seeing the edge of rain is a rare thing but not impossible the rain has to be really powerful so that the wind couldn't diverge the drops from their vertical path if the rain is light you'll only be able to see its edges from far away it looks like a shimmering gray haze going all the way from the sky to the ground now the rain's passed but the wind is still blowing and rising ever stronger you see leaves flying around in a circular pattern and realize a tornado is about to start you run as fast and far away as you can climb some hill and only then stop and turn around no tornado yet but the cloud that's hanging up there looks menacing another flash and a whip crap the lightning has struck a lone tree near where you just stood it caught on fire and there's a column of flames rising to the sky still no rain and the pillar becomes taller and taller you've heard of such a thing but never seen it a fire tornado this phenomenon occurs when the wind is caught in a circle close to the ground because of the difference in air pressure such many tornadoes are usually easy to notice small rubble dust sand and leaves rise into the air and start flying in rapid circles but then if there's a source of fire nearby the funnel can catch it and blow it stronger like bellows the flames go round and round reaching even higher and eventually creating a swirling blazing tower luckily fire tornadoes are short-lived and don't normally cause much damage if that wasn't enough you feel some rumbling from below no it's not your tummy it's low and ominous you look up and see strange lights hanging above the ground they look like shimmering balls of light hovering high up in the sky your throat goes dry and you gulp that's what they call the earthquake lights this phenomenon is poorly understood but witnesses say they've seen it in different shapes and sizes it could be in the form of light balls sheet lightning streamers and steady glow in the sky soon after a strong earthquake follows scientists can't explain why those lights appear and they don't always do either some believe there's a reaction of underground gases released into the atmosphere sure enough an earthquake begins but lucky you it's not as strong as you expected the ground is shaking but you even managed to keep your balance it stops as abruptly as it began and you walk home later that night you look out the window and see something incredible a rainbow but it's dark already and the moon is shining in the clear night skies ah wait that's exactly what it is a moonbow also called a lunar rainbow this event occurs extremely rarely it's similar to a regular rainbow in everything except that it appears on a clear moony night after a rain shower thankful for such a spectacle you go to sleep next morning you look out the window again and suddenly the sun is all but blocked and it seems to be night again you hear distant rustling and some kind of crying puzzled you look up and you can't believe your eyes there are thousands upon thousands of birds in the sky so many that they block all sunlight this is called sort saw or black sun in danish very fitting normally it only happens in denmark hence the name where numerous migratory star links take to the air at the same time to look for a place to stay for the winter there are so many of them that they literally make the sky go black for a few moments so what are they doing where you are well that's a good question okay you're now magically transported to antarctica we're in an imaginary universe so anything can happen of course you're properly dressed in warm and cozy clothes you look around in bewilderment and realize you've been transported to the slopes of mount erebus one of many volcanoes of the icy continent right now it's slowly cooking gas seeping out from its top and fissures on the sides what draws your attention though are snowy pillars all around you these are known as snow chimneys they form thanks to the boiling magma underneath it occasionally spews up hot gas toward the surface but the chill outside stops the hot stuff as a result fumaroles are formed the hot gas freezes over as soon as it hits the air creating peculiar ice statues they let out thin strands of smoke almost all the time and grow as the gas tries to escape from the neither well that's enough of the freezing cold and volcanoes time to go to milder climbs whoosh and you're in los angeles look up almost right above you there's a beautiful rainbow cascade of clouds these are called a fire rainbow or circum horizontal ark again it's a rare thing but here in la it's much more likely to occur than say in london fire rainbows only appear when the conditions are right it's close to the equator the weather is clear there are feather-like clouds in the sky and the sun is higher than 58 degrees above the horizon such clouds are made of ice crystals and when the sun's rays hit them the particles refract the light and create a rainbow wow oops jumping to another place again this time you find yourself in indonesia overlooking another volcano its name is kawaii jan and it's the world's most beautiful fire mountain you see it slowly erupting but the lava lazily flowing out of its ma isn't red it's blue inside the kawaii zhen there's much more sulfuric gas than in any other volcano when the mountain erupts the gas goes out under extreme pressure as soon as it hits the open air it triggers a chemical reaction which turns the fire blue ever seen a gas stove burning here the principle is basically the same and you're in the bitter cold of the arctic ah come on still as soon as you see the frozen ocean you forget all about the cold there are frost flowers blooming on the surface marvelous crystals of fragile ice seem to grow from the thin sheet of the frozen sea such flowers only occur near the shore or on lakes when the difference in temperatures above and on the water line is drastic at least 27 degrees is required when the warmer ice on the surface meets the colder air above it water vapor appears and freezes rapidly this creates brittle but beautiful structures on the surface which can even grow taller with time your next destination is not much warmer still the arctic circle but siberia now strangely at first you see nothing around but the endless green valley and a low hill nearby but then you notice that the ground is trembling an earthquake again no you see the hill shaking as if it were about to burst and then it actually bursts an ear splitting boom takes your hearing away for a few seconds and you see huge boulders flying in every direction like meteorites when you return your gaze to the ground there's no hill before you instead there's a huge wide and deep crater you've become witness to a permafrost explosion a new and poorly explored phenomenon the main theory is that low mounds sometimes form in the frozen plains of siberia pushed upwards by expanding natural gas hidden underneath at some point this gas can explode leading to a powerful burst and the mound pops like a water bubble a massive extremely dangerous pop look out there's a stray boulder flying right at you you've been transported right on time and hey you're back home the thunderstorm is over and whoa what are those clouds they look extremely sinister well don't worry they're called mammatus clouds and they're perfectly safe they tend to appear before or after a severe storm or a hurricane normally clouds form thanks to warmer air going up but these ones form because of cooler air sinking down it creates pockets made of ice and water which droop down in distinct lobes they don't hold on for too long though 15 minutes at the most and then they're gone you look at the site shake your head and go home that's a bit too much for one day

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Id: IXzZJASMrnY

Length: 10min 0sec (600 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 17 2021