Post: The 10 Most Fascinating Natural Phenomena
02-02-2010, 11:23 PM #1
PrayForPlagues
The Black Key
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Aurora Borealis
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Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful events to occur in our world, the Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights, has both astounded and amazed people since it was first discovered.

Mammatus Clouds
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They are a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud. Composed primarily of ice, Mammatus Clouds can extend for hundreds of miles in each direction. Mammatus clouds are often harbingers of a coming storm or other extreme weather system.

Red Tides
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More correctly known as an algal bloom, the so-called Red tide is a natural event in which estuarine, marine, or fresh water algae accumulate rapidly in the water column and can convert entire areas of an ocean or beach into a blood red color.

Penitentes
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These amazing ice spikes, generally known as penitentes can be found on mountain glaciers and vary in size dramatically. Initially, the sun’s rays cause random dimples on the surface of the snow.

Sailing Stones
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Rocks weighing up to hundreds of pounds have been known to move up to hundreds of yards at a time. Some scientists have proposed that a combination of strong winds and surface ice account for these movements.

Supercells
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Super cell are usually isolated storms, which can last for hours, and sometimes can split in two, with one storm going to the left of the wind and one to the right. They can spout huge amounts of hail, rain and wind and are often responsible for tornados.

Fire Whirls
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A fire whir is a rare phenomenon in which a fire, under certain conditions acquires vertical vortices and forms a whirl of a vertical orientation rotating column of air. They can be as high as 30 to 200 ft tall

Ice Circles
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Ice Circles are formed when surface ice gathers in the center of a body of water rather than the edges. A slow moving river current can create a slow turning eddy, which rotates, forming an ice disc. These ice circles have been seen with diameters of over 500 feet.

Gravity Waves
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The undulating pattern of a Gravity Wave is caused by air displaced in the vertical plain, usually as a result of updrafts coming off the mountains or during thunderstorms. Nature then tries to restore the fluid changes caused by updrafts within the atmosphere, which present in a visible oscillating pattern within the cloud.

Fire Rainbow
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Fire rainbow appears when the sun is high in the sky and its light passes through diaphanous, high-altitude cirrus clouds made up of hexagonal plate crystals.
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The following 8 users say thank you to PrayForPlagues for this useful post:

.Say Hi., AgentJon, Bluemywaffle, Caspa, thousand schemes, Jomow, Super Arsha, The-Godfather
02-03-2010, 08:21 PM #11
AgentJon
Former Staff
This is truly amazing, great post.
02-03-2010, 10:14 PM #12
PrayForPlagues
The Black Key
Thanks guys Smile I will try to find more cool stuff later Happy
02-03-2010, 11:18 PM #13
Godz_gift
Save Point
cool for the natural phenomena and the weird sea creatures
02-05-2010, 02:23 PM #14
PHO3NIX~
Regenerated and Reborn
This is an amazing world, but we all are too used to the city
We all need to get out sometimes, try doing something that involves nature, like climbing mountains

This stuff reminds me of James Camerons: Avatar

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