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What are the top ten weird weather phenomena?

Non-liquid rain

It is reported that residents of California, Britain and India often experience the scene of fish and frogs falling from the sky. What is even more frightening is that sometimes even snakes fall from the sky.

Tornadoes at sea can drag any living thing in the water into the air, and then fly a few Qian Qian meters with it and land in front of unprepared people.

Lightning ball

For centuries, it has been reported that there is a strange electrical phenomenon in people's houses, which often occurs in thunderstorm weather. This phenomenon is called "lightning ball", which varies in size, from golf to football. It sometimes floats in the air, which undoubtedly surprises people who have witnessed the scene.

This kind of light ball has no smell or temperature, but it is a little noisy. When it touches a TV set or something, it will make a "bang" and then disappear, but this lightning ball occasionally explodes and causes a fire. But most people, including scientists, are puzzled by this phenomenon, and there is still no reasonable explanation for this phenomenon.

blood rain

Blood rain sounds like a Hollywood horror movie, but it is reported that this bright red rain appeared in Roman times. People were frightened by it, but the rain was not actually mixed with blood. It is red, because strong winds are involved in a lot of dust and sand in the air, and eventually it is carried into the clouds.

In Europe, this kind of red rain is usually "dyed" by the dust in the Sahara desert.

Three suns

Even on sunny days, there will be abnormal phenomena in the sky, at least many illusions are caused by human error. If the sun has just risen from the horizon, or there are a lot of cirrus clouds in the sky, people may have hallucinations, as if there are strange images of three suns in the sky.

In fact, this phenomenon can be explained as follows: sunlight is refracted by ice-like crystals in high clouds to produce various colors of light, thus creating an illusion. Although this is a very common optical phenomenon, we seldom see it. After all, we can't always look directly at the sun.

The blue moon

There are two full moons in a month, but it is really rare for the moon to appear blue. So the word "blue moon" is usually defined as whimsical, and you can't do it if you want to.

Generally speaking, forest fires and tornadoes will bring dust and soot into the sky, and water droplets will be mixed in the air, so the moon looks blue against the dust-doped water droplets.

sea monster

Loch Ness Monster may be just an unusual phenomenon of water column formation. Sometimes a small whirlwind is also called the so-called "water monster" because it constantly sweeps a lot of water during its formation and produces a vortex.

The formed water column usually rotates irregularly, making a "hissing" or strange sound of water flow, so that people will associate it with a monster with a long neck and a terrible monster that suddenly jumps out of the water. This scene is often shocking.

Fire tornado

Although the fire tornado doesn't have the super power to lift a house, it sounds scary. This whirlwind is essentially a small tornado, which gathers heat during the formation process, causing the air on the surface to rise and form a strong whirlwind.

It is called a whirlwind because it cleans the dust on the ground. What is even more frightening, however, is that there is also a fire whirlwind, which often comes from the huge heat generated by forest fires, making the flame rotate rapidly and violently in the air.

Red light and blue steam

It has been reported for several years that pilots often see strange colored lights shining from the top of dark clouds when performing tasks, but no one can explain this phenomenon clearly. But in recent years, scientists have found evidence of the existence of this strange colored light.

This "red elf" is actually a red light 50 meters above the earth. They are usually sent in clusters.

In addition, there is a phenomenon called "blue vapor", which is also produced by blue light and looks close to red light from the surface. And the formation of red light is very strange, showing the shape of pancakes. This phenomenon lasted only a few thousand seconds, and scientists are still exploring its mystery.

Electric Benu bird at the top of mast

It is reported that people once saw fireballs strutting on the mast of a ship in a thunderstorm, and the same phenomenon also happened on people's horns and heads.

This phenomenon is called electric Benoit bird, which is actually caused by the transfer of static electricity generated during thunderstorms to the top of long objects. Although the electric Benu bird itself poses no threat to human beings, touching it may cause lightning, which may lead to electric shock. So we'd better look far away.

Heavy hail

Most people who have experienced severe thunderstorms must have seen hail, usually only the size of a softball. But the hail in the sky occasionally shocks everyone. It is recorded that the hail weighed 80 Jin, but it broke when it hit the ground.

Even more amazing is that when there is no cloud in the sky, a huge block will fall in the sky. Although some people can explain that some phenomena are caused by the icing of aircraft wings, there are many other phenomena that have not been explained.

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