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Have you ever seen a dirty thunderstorm?

Added	Tue, 28/05/2019
Источники	gismeteo.ru youtube.com
Дата публикации	Tue, 28/05/2019
Версии	The storm The eruption of the volcano and geysers

Nature has left a lot of interesting and unusual phenomena. View the video it shows the so-called dirty thunderstorm.

A dirty thunderstorm (or volcanic lightning) is a weather phenomenon characterized by formation of lightning in the ash cloud, which rises from the crater of the volcano during the eruption.

Video created by the Chilean filmmaker Christian Munoz-Dosso for TV program "bi-Bi-si". It mode time-lapse footage captures volcano Calbuco is one of the most dangerous Chilean volcanoes. In April, the giant woke up after a 40-year-old slumber and threw a column of ash to a height of 10 kilometers. Five thousand people have been evacuated.

But back to the dirt storm. What it is, and as lightning? Scientists believe that electric charges are generated when rock fragments, particles of ice and ash in volcanic emissions collide and produce static charges in much the same way as ice particles collide, charging cumulonimbus clouds during thunderstorms.

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