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Most of us are interested in the weather ; do we need to up warm today or take an umbrella or our sunglasses when we go out? But imagine if you heard that a never-ending storm was on its way or a shower of animals! This might sound but, believe it or not, these kinds of weather phenomena actually happen …
Heavy weather
Some people are used to weather . This is the case for those who live in the area where the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo and has dark clouds it most of the year. For centuries, these clouds constantly into each other and cause lightning storms that can last up to ten hours and between 140 and 160 nights a year. They call it ‘the never-ending lightning storm’. However, every cloud has a lining; this lightning activity produces nitrogen oxide which probably helps to the ozone layer. Another kind of rare lightning is lightning. This is a ball of brightly coloured light which usually occurs during but lasts longer than a lightning . Sometimes the ball even and leaves behind a smell, but the true cause of this phenomenon is a . One sighting hit the news in 1984 when ball lightning entered a Russian , flew above the shocked passengers, travelled through the aircraft, and passed out again leaving two holes in the plane.
Fire from the sky
We're all used to hearing about , but imagine if a tornado was a firestorm instead of a . A fire tornado or a "fire devil" an happen when high temperatures from a mix with strong winds. They are usually about 300-450 meters high, but they can sometimes reach 1.6 km in ! A fire tornado made world news in 2010 in Brazil when motorists watched one spin and burn its way through fields by a highway. In 1923, the Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan the largest fire tornado in history, killing 33.000 people in 15 minutes. Luckily, fire tornadoes are very .
A watery tale
Have you ever heard the saying "it's raining cats and dogs?" Well, what about frogs, fish, , or even snakes? Believe it or not, there have been many stories history of it animals. One is that strong winds or a tornado could pick them up and drop them far away. The rain of fish has been happening every summer in the of Yoro, Honduras for over a century. say that there is usually a violent storm, then there are hundreds of living fish on the ground which people take home, cook, and eat! Many people believe that the fish are from rivers and that the storms somehow bring them up above ground.