The eternal thunderbolt of Venezuela is a place where lightning does not stop
The Catatombo Thunderbolt is a unique phenomenon in the world, occurring on the mouth of the Katatombo River in Lake Maracaibo in northwest Venezuela.
The Catatumbo Everlasting Lightning Storm is a strange and unique natural phenomenon in the world. At the junction of the Catatombo River in the Maracayio Lake in Venezuela, you can see the phenomenon of lightning that does not stop. An electric arc of about five kilometers is formed in this spot , So it is named by this name
Lake Maracaibo is the largest lake in South America with an area of 13,512 km². The lake is 13210 km² and the lake is 50 meters deep.
The lake is connected to the Caribbean through the San Carlos Canal and has a length of 75 km, and channel San Carlos into the Bay of Venezuela.
A lightning bolt is a lightning strike between clouds formed in an arc of more than five kilometers for 140-160 nights a year, lasts 10 hours at night and sometimes reaches 280 times an hour. .
Scientists explain this strange phenomenon, as it occurs after the collision of wind with the Andes, and as a result of the electric discharge through ionized gases, specifically methane gas caused by the decomposition of organic matter in the marshes. Being lighter than air, rising up clouds, and feeding storms.
The lightning occurs in that part of Venezuela over a period of 300 days a year, and the phenomenon continues more than 10 times a day, at 280 lightning-hours per hour (1.2 million lightning strikes at a time).
Although the phenomenon has begun to decline in recent years, it lasts 160 nights a year, with 40 flash minutes per minute lasting nine hours, yet it is considered one of the largest ozone generators on the planet produces an electric energy estimated at 1176000 watts per year as a result of the occurrence Lightning between clouds with a density of up to 400,000 mA.
It is remarkable that these lightning can be seen 400 kilometers away and result in the generation of large quantities of ozone gas. The light of this phenomenon was used for navigation by ships and was called the Maracaibo Lighthouse.
This scene is repeated in an atmosphere of unreal silence, after lightning does not come thunder, but just a set of flashes penetrating the night without thunder followed, and lights in different forms.
Some local environmental experts hope to place the area under the protection of UNESCO, because it is an exceptional phenomenon, the largest source of its kind to renew the ozone layer on the planet.
Lightning is of great importance in the generation of important ozone gas to protect the Earth from the dangers of ultraviolet radiation from the sun to the Earth, and harmful chemical pollutants caused by humans could destroy a part of the important ozone layer.
