23 Scary Natural Phenomena Happening Somewhere Right Now

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a spinning column of flame
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rises above the ground catching burning
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debris and throwing it all around
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it's known as a fire whirl that can grow
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into a fire tornado
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it's 2 000 degrees fahrenheit hot as
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powerful as a regular tornado
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and it won't stop before anything it can
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burn up an entire village in a matter of
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seconds
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and can't be put down directly
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raging winds thunderstorms and hail
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powerful lightnings rushing your way
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from
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every direction that's what a water
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spout is about
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it's strong enough to sink ships in
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seconds and that makes it perhaps the
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most
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devastatingly natural cataclysm on water
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those liquid tornadoes are so crafty
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they aren't just born in storms
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but also appear over perfectly calm open
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ocean
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watch out
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regular tornadoes moving at the speed of
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250 miles per hour aren't any less
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dangerous
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the sky becomes sinister dark with a
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shade of greenish
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a funnel of crazily spinning air
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stretches from the thunderstorm and
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all the way to the ground hail the size
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of golf balls often comes with it
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sounds like a train approaching your way
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it flips trucks and houses and nothing
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can stop it
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all this happens when warm humid air
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collides with cold dry air
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huge masses of snow and ice rush down a
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mountain slope at a speed of cars going
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down the highway
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there's no way to stop an avalanche or
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control it
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when some unlucky fellow gets locked
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under it they can rarely survive
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over an hour humans are to blame for 90
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percent of all avalanches
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but they're still unpredictable
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the odds of getting struck by lightning
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are about one in a million in a lifetime
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those odds are much higher on lake
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maracaibo in venezuela
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also known as the lightning capital of
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the world
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here thunderstorms burst the skies 300
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days a year
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electrical bolts travel at the speed of
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185
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000 miles per hour they're charged with
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300 kilovolts
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and are way too risky for humans
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a river of debris and mud known as a
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mudslide
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is rushing from a mountaintop onto the
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city
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long periods of heavy rains can be a
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warning sign of them
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and the only way to protect yourself is
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to be alert and evacuate at the first
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signs of it
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the most destructive mudslides are
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caused by erupting volcanoes and
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wildfires
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that eat up vegetation and free the road
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for mud and debris
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the sea turns sinister red and no living
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being can survive in it
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must be some dark magic in fact it's
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tiny
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algae that spread uncontrollably giving
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the water this specific tint
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called the red tide they have toxins
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that destroy sea mammals birds and
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turtles
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as well as the creatures that feed on
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them for humans
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contact with it ends in breathing
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problems or seafood poisoning
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after an earthquake or volcanic eruption
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devastating debris and rocks turn entire
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towns into nothing
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the name for this disaster is a
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landslide
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some of them rapidly move from the
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mountains others
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are slow but are just as good at taking
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down property and lives
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every year the damage they bring adds up
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to billions of dollars
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roads are often ruined and fresh
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drinking water becomes a luxury
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you're sitting in your home having
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breakfast when suddenly the ground opens
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up
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and swallows it completely leaving you
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only seconds to run away
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sinkholes happen when the water erodes
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underground rock layers
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they can happen suddenly or form
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gradually and send warning signs
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a sinkhole can also release toxic gases
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from under the ground
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making it even more catastrophic
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sometimes even huge ships sink in the
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open seas for no visible reason
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the reason is often the pockets of
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bubbles that underwater volcanoes
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produce
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even while they're sleeping those
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productive magma factories are hidden
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under 8
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500 feet of water when they wake up they
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act just like land volcanoes
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and they can cause destructive tsunamis
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when the winds and ocean currents turn
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into beasts
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they have the power of moving entire
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walls of ice
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30 feet tall onto land it happens mostly
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in early spring
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when the ice is thawing but hasn't
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melted yet
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nothing can stop those ice tsunamis on
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their way of destruction
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on a fine summer evening of 1854
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the american ship shooting star was on
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its way to indonesia
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suddenly the ocean in front of it turned
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white
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was it some mysterious sea monster or
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maybe mermaid tricks
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the sailors dubbed it milky sea all that
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white glow
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was caused by billions of trillions of
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shiny bacteria in the water and it still
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happens today
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powerful storms and cyclones can turn
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the sea into a giant bath
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filled with foam when that foam moves
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ashore
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it fills a whole town luckily foamy
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storms are extremely rare
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they might look harmless but have the
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power of destroying property
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causing floods and taking lives plus
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they bring a scary surprise of sea
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snakes on land
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it spreads in a matter of minutes
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covering huge areas with its hungry
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flames
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a wildfire can reach the speed of 14
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miles per hour
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and it's easily the most feared natural
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disaster
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it affects people's lives thousands of
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miles away
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polluting the air and causing breathing
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problems
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even advanced technologies can't predict
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it and controlling it
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is also near impossible
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in the hottest and one of the driest
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places on earth
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africa's danakil desert temperatures
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often rise above 120 degrees fahrenheit
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the out-of-this-world landscape has many
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active volcanoes and geysers
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that spit out toxic gases like chlorine
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and sulfur
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the vibrantly green electric blue and
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yellow waters
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are all rain and seawater warmed up by
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magma
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one wrong step here and you'd be gone
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for good
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when tectonic plates that make up the
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earth's surface
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clash waves of powerful energy get out
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this is how an earthquake is born also
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known as the most common and devastating
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natural phenomenon on this planet
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thousands of them happen every year and
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as they cause tsunamis
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landslides fire and famine the damage is
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always huge
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fires bursting in the night sky combined
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with multiple bolts of lightning coming
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out of it at the same time
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a volcanic lightning is a spectacular
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fusion
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of flash and ash scientists are still
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guessing how it's born
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most likely it's because there's a
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buildup of static electricity
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inside a volcano during eruption from
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friction of ash
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hundreds or even millions of birds
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starlings blackbirds and whatnot
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flock together in a sky dance they seem
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to cover the entire sky
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and the sun disappears when they rise
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it's called a murmuration
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and you're most likely to spot it in
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england it won't do you much harm
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unless you're in a plane that would have
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to reroute or make an emergency landing
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no fun
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when frozen methane in the siberian
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permafrost melts
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it transforms into gas and boom
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there's eventually so much of it the
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ground explodes
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it leaves behind huge craters changing
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the ecosystem of tundra
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no one knows when it's going to pass the
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point of no return
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there's a bright red lake in tanzania
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called natron
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and it seems serene and peaceful but
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don't be fooled
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the shallow waters of this place are so
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alkaline
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they burn like sulfuric acid in fact any
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living being that's not adapted to such
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conditions
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is doomed if you just want to see it you
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won't be there too long
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the odor of hydrogen sulfide it
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evaporates
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is unbearable well that stinks
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high in the sky near the poles in cold
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and dry air
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there are colorful clouds that look
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somewhat like aurora borealis
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the beams of the rising or setting sun
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are glowing through the clouds when they
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float above it
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it looks gorgeous and harmless but is in
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fact a factory for chemical reactions
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that slowly destroy the earth's ozone
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layer
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a wall of quickly moving sand dust and
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dirt covers the sky
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it's hard to breathe and impossible to
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see a thing
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dust storms or sand storms mostly happen
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in arid regions
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bring lung problems can carry spores of
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infections
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and mess up the infrastructure if it
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ever catches you driving your best bet
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is to stop and wait for the storm to
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pass
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there are things that look dangerous but
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aren't so in the least
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one example of this every once in a
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while
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red rain falls in different parts of the
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world
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it leaves behind a thin layer of reddish
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dust on cars and buildings
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it looks sinister but in fact can do you
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no harm
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the sand it carries from the sahara
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gives it this shade
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penitenti seem like creepy white fingers
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spread across
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high altitudes in places like the
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atakuma desert in south america
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in reality they're made of snow and ice
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and are perfectly harmless
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and this is a good place to stop nice to
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end on
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perfectly harmless