Fact: There were over 2.1 BILLION lightning events last year. ⚡ Who else expects even more this year? ✋ Credit: Vaisala Xweather 2023 Annual Lightning Report
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Fact: There were over 2.1 BILLION lightning events last year. ⚡ Who else expects even more this year? ✋ Credit: Vaisala Xweather 2023 Annual Lightning Report
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Hot Subject: Did you know that a bolt of lightning can be hotter than the surface of the sun? Lightning can reach temperatures of about 30,000 kelvins (53,540 degrees Fahrenheit or 29,726 degrees Celsius), while the sun's surface is only around 5,500 kelvins (9,500 degrees Fahrenheit or 5,527 degrees Celsius). So, the next time you see a lightning storm, you can imagine it being even hotter than the sun for a brief moment!
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The Sun appears to rise above the horizon and circle the Earth, but it is actually the Earth that is rotating, with the Sun remaining fixed. This effect results from the fact that an observer on Earth is in a rotating reference frame.
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"Dramatic, destructive and disruptive" is how Vaisala describes nature's most extreme weather phenomenon in its 2023 Annual Lightning Report. Check out the ⚡🌩⚡ statistics and 411 for a look at the U.S.'s lightning year in review. #lightning #2023events https://lnkd.in/ear9xywv
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#staticelectricity #renewableenergy Here's something to think about for all of those mind bending #Physicsmajors. "It looked like a 60W lightbulb", as it went through the living room. Positively charged atoms release energy. When air has a high positive charge, like the static charge in the carpet of your living room, air circulates in a small positively charged vortex, usually lasting only milli seconds, or as in this video, moments. The charged atoms releases the energy, just like a lightning bolt, the flash on the end of your finger from static, or the gas in a lightbulb, creating light energy without a filament. With a filament lightbulb, and even an LED, the energy can still be seen as instant after the power source is gone. Does air become positively static charged when it flows over or between 2 magnets in a lightbulb? That's basically "what the earth is", a lightbulb with a crust of very large iron magnets embedded and spinning. Have you ever been hiking in a place where a magnetic compass doesn't always point north, and lightning is everywhere? Maybe, it was Colorado. https://lnkd.in/gUB2iK7w https://lnkd.in/gNQu8eUQ
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It's still quite cold in Scandinavia and this trend that started in October doesn't seem to end. Indeed, forecasts still show below-average temperatures in Scandinavia in the coming days with arctic air also affecting northern Russia. The reason for this 'cold blob' is not entirely clear. The polar vortex this year did not remain centered on the North Pole, but instead moved towards Northern Europe, allowing Arctic air masses to flow southward. This configuration could be influenced by Rossby waves, generated by El Niño. El Niño tends to induce an atmospheric circulation characterized by a negative North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), which in turn favors colder conditions.
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An unusual reduction in the strength of the Earth's magnetic field between 591 and 565 million years ago coincided with a significant increase in the oxygen levels in the atmosphere and oceans. Catch Up: https://lnkd.in/gn3TQTSy
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Both these screenshots are from the Nullschool global weather map, https://lnkd.in/eJu4XttX its a really interesting global map to see the whole of the Earths weather machine interacting.
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The Arctic polar vortex is a band of strong westerly winds that forms in the stratosphere between about 10 and 30 miles above the North Pole every winter. The winds enclose a large pool of extremely cold air. (There is an even stronger polar vortex in the Southern Hemisphere stratosphere in its winter.) The stronger the winds, the more the air inside is isolated from warmer latitudes, and the colder it gets.
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The clouds in the picture appear to be large cumulonimbus clouds, towering clouds often associated with thunderstorms and heavy rain.
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