Not a large selection of very strange natural phenomena.
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Bioluminescent “red wave”
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Under certain conditions, plant plankton begins multiply in the ocean at crazy speed, forming under the surface of the water is a thick layer of blooming algae – the so-called the red wave. In the afternoon it does not look particularly attractive, but here at night on some beaches where bioluminescent a species of Noctiluca scintillans, the “red wave” seems to be something just the other world.
From this algae comes a blue glow that turns dark ocean into a giant lamp. Just imagine how such a luminous wave rolls ashore, washes your feet and slowly creeps back.
Phosphorescent light
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In late summer, in many forests across the earth, on a wet rotting mushrooms appear in the bark of trees, glowing with a strange otherworldly by the light.
A particularly large variety of mushrooms glowing in the dark is growing in a humid tropical climate. Last year, for example, not far from São Paulo (Brazil) a completely new variety.
Fire rainbow
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Another summer phenomenon – a fiery rainbow – appears when sunlight encounters frozen ice crystals in its path high cirrus clouds. Since for the occurrence of fiery rainbow (scientifically “near-horizontal arc”) is required highly standing sun and cirrus clouds, this phenomenon is most often observed at latitudes close to the equator.
Mother of pearl clouds
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Those who live far from the equator can also see in the sky a lot of wonderful things. Mother of pearl clouds – an extremely rare phenomenon, it observed in the dark – or immediately after sunset, or just before dawn.
Because these clouds form unusually high, they can reflect sunlight that is not yet visible to us beyond the horizon, and shine brightly in the dark. In the stratosphere where this mother of pearl lives a miracle, so dry that cloud formation there is almost impossible. And only thanks to the extreme polar winters, this amazing from time to time a beautiful phenomenon still arises – in Iceland, in Alaska, in northern Canada, and very rarely in England.
Snow rolls
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Such snow sausages are quite rare. At a certain temperature and wind, snow “sheets” lag behind the ice and begin curl into rolls.
Basalt columns
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Hexagonal basalt pillars look like giant pencils and give the impression of being created by man. In fact they naturally obtained from lava, which, rapidly solidifying, shrinks and cracks to the appearance of such severe forms. Similar geological formations can be found throughout the Earth. The two most notable are on the so-called “Giants Road” in Northern Ireland and Madera County (California, USA).
Animals falling from the sky with rain.
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Messages about such phenomena came from around the world on over the centuries. Most often, fish, frogs and other small aquatic animals.
Despite the fact that this phenomenon is unusually rare and there aren’t many reliable witnesses, most Incidents can be explained.
Water tornadoes are quite able to lift into the air along with water of small animals, transfer to a fairly solid distance, and then throw right on someone’s head.
Devil clouds
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This type of cloud is so rare that until 2009 it was not included into one classification. Despite its ominous and foreboding storm view, they dissipate quite quickly. Like other types wavy clouds, they form when turbulent or colliding airflows lift the clouds below, forming bizarre shapes resembling either a stormy sea or a surface land
Green ray
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Famous fleeing green flashes – rare meteorological phenomenon that occurs at sunset or sunrise the sun. At this time, the sun’s rays to reach our eyes come a long way through the atmosphere. The last ray decomposing into a spectrum, forms a “fan” of colored rays, most of which do not reach the earth’s surface. As a result, we see only emerald flash.
In order to have a chance to see this phenomenon, three conditions – open horizon, clean air and lack the clouds.
False sun
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When the sun is near the horizon, and fly in the air tiny ice crystals, on either side of the sun you can to see two bright spots – as bright as the sun itself. This phenomenon is mentioned in the “Word of Igor’s Regiment”: it says that before the onset of the Polovtsy and the capture of Igor “four suns shone over the Russian land. ”
Double Rainbow
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It arises in about the same way as usual, with that only the difference is that the sun is reflected in raindrops not one but two times. It’s best to observe this phenomenon when the sky is still quite dark from rain clouds, since it’s easier on a gray background consider the pale colors of the second rainbow.
Striped iceberg
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Not all icebergs are monochrome. Some of them are decorated multi-colored stripes – and this is not even traditional for the Arctic white and blue. As the ice melts, then freezes again, in it turns out to be layers with different dirt, algae and other particles that create multi-colored stripes along the surface iceberg.
Lightning Catatumbo
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This is an amazing natural phenomenon that can be seen above the confluence of the Katatumbo River into Lake Maracaibo (South America), called the “eternal storm.” It can be seen from afar, therefore for a long time he served as a reliable reference point for sailors. Zippers Catatumbo are visible approximately 140-160 nights a year, discharges last about 10 hours.
Boulders of Moeraki
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Moeraki’s boulders are huge spherical stones, scattered along the Koyokohe beach, near the village of Moeraki in New Zealand. These stones themselves naturally naturally rise to the surface from clay rocks of the local coast. Erosion is responsible for the appearance of these giants, but their spherical the form arose for another reason. Boulders, scientists say, are millions years lay on the bottom of the ocean, where about the same thing happened to them, as with pearls – a layer of sedimentary rocks and other materials crystallized around the central core.
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