The RARE NATURAL PHENOMENA Iceberg

Natural phenomena. Strange things that occur in nature. Nature is pretty wild. A lot of things happen. Fire, wind, snow. We know about these things. But there are some really rare, really strange things that can also occur in nature that most people haven't even seen. We've all seen a rainbow. What about a fire rainbow? Many of us have seen dust devils. But have you seen a crown flash? What about ball lightning? This is what we're talking about in today's video. We're going to do a huge list of natural phenomena. Starting from the most common, the most known, and then ending with the rarest natural phenomena. Some of this natural phenomena at the end of the list might not even exist because we have no photos. All right, that's how rare it is. Perhaps you're like a Pokemon master, but instead of Pokemon, it's natural phenomena. And you want a list so you can check them off every time you see one. A little taxonomy. Is that what it's called? A taxonomy? 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Next up is clouds. These are little white fluffy things in the sky. Sometimes the whole sky is made up of clouds. That's known as a cloudy day. Yeah, or overcast skies. What are clouds though? Clouds are like little aerosol, tiny small water droplets that are collected together up in the atmosphere, suspended up in the atmosphere. That's what they are. Not rare. Sometimes if they're super dense, they look a little darker. You get like dark clouds, gray clouds, and sometimes they get so dense that they lead to rain. Speaking of rain, next up is rain and snow, AKA precipitation. Sometimes water falls from the sky. Sometimes it's liquid. Sometimes it's solid because it's frozen. Rain and snow. Next up is fire. Fire is pretty interesting. Actually, like that's kind of a crazy, if this was like a really rare phenomenon, people would be like obsessed with it, but it's pretty common and which is good because it's pretty useful. What is fire? Fire is a chemical reaction involving the rapid oxidation of fuel. It's super hot. And when it's super hot, the gas begins to glow. And this is known as a flame. It's very useful for cooking. It can also be very bad if it gets out of hand. So yeah, next up we have sunbeams, AKA crepuscular rays. These are also known as god rays or twilight rays. So up in the atmosphere, there's a lot of like dust. There's a lot of haze, a lot of particulate, and you can't really see it that well. But if like a huge cloud or a mountain, or even like a tree is blocking the sunlight, you see that particulate reflecting sun rays, and they look like little beams. Very good for a, you know, a heavenly calendar. Sometimes you get something called a Jacob's ladder, which is like a hole in the cloud and like looks like a beam coming down like a UFO beam. This is called Jacob's ladder. Anyway, sunbeams. Really easy to see if you go like to a forest, especially if allergies are like, there's a bunch of pollen in the air right now, which is destroying my eyes as we have discussed. But you know, that reflects sunlight, and it looks like a sunbeam. Next up is meteor, AKA shooting star, AKA a falling star. So this is when a rock up in space burns up in our atmosphere to a process known as ablation. Creates a little streak in the sky because it releases a lot of energy. Very rare in the day. You need a big one if you want to see one of these in the day, but at night, if it's a clear sky, you can see one every night easily. Now it is kind of more rare than the other stuff on this layer because technically you have to be kind of looking for one to see one, but still very common. Next up is our first lightning. Yes, cloud to cloud or intra-cloud lightning. This is an electrical discharge between two electrically charged areas up in the atmosphere. Sometimes, you know, you have a positive area and a negative area and electric discharge. Slightly rarer than cloud to cloud or intra-cloud lightning is cloud to ground negative lightning. This is when you had those two positively, you know, those two differently charged areas. One's on the ground, a negative charge in this case, and one's up in the cloud, up in the thunderstorm, a positive charge and lightning bolt hit the ground. This can be dangerous. Finally, we have the belt of Venus slash also Earth's shadow. So this one's not as well known, but it's very common. You can see it twice a day if you really want to. This is when after the sun sets, you kind of get like a pink on the anti-solar point towards the opposite side of the sky. You kind of get like a belt of pink, the belt of Venus, like a pink band in the sky and beneath it is the Earth's shadow. Kind of a cool little atmospheric trick, but very common. Moving on to chapter two, layer two, unique phenomena. All this natural phenomena is not like an everyday occurrence, but it's still pretty common. We're going to start off with the classic rainbow, which is a reflection of sunlight off of raindrops. It's storming. You have a bunch of rain. The sunlight refracts off of that rain. It then scatters out into that classic Roy G. Biv look. Very beautiful. Next, we move on to a mirage. So a mirage is when light bends due to temperature differences in the air. So sometimes the ground is super hot and the air above it is cooler and then you get like this weird effect where it like bends the light. That's when you like see like the water on the road or perhaps you're out at sea and you see like weird boat mirages. Next is kind of a more unknown one, but it's very common. It's called a Corona. This is caused by the diffraction of moonlight through small water droplets. So if there's a full moon and there's like a thin layer of clouds and you look at that full moon, you can kind of see like a little rainbow thing around it. It's called a Corona. It's very common if you look for them, but if you don't look for them, you might not see one. Next up is a slightly more rare form of lightning, positive charged lightning. So on top of the thunderstorm, you have sometimes a positive charge area and they can go strike all the way down to the ground and they are very powerful and longer lasting. Sometimes you even get something called a smooth channel lightning, which is like a form of positive lightning that is smooth all the way up. This lightning tends to be louder than negative lightning. Next up we have our first halo, the 22 degree halo. Sometimes if you look at the sun, especially if it's like snowing outside or like really cold, you'll see a little 22 degree halo around it. This is from sunlight refracting off of ice crystals. It gives a nice little halo effect. We'll have lots of ice crystal arcs and stuff later in the list. Next up we have another rainbow, a monochrome rainbow, aka a red rainbow. So if you have a thunderstorm that's closer to sunset or sunrise, since the sun is already pretty low in the sky, you might get like a cool red rainbow. These, these look amazing. I'm a huge fan of these. More rare than your typical rainbow. Next up, it's the lunar eclipse. This is when the earth passes between the moon and the sun and it, you know, casts its shadow on the moon. It makes the moon look a little red. Some people think that these are pretty rare, but this is actually not that rare at all. Like it happens every year, maybe twice a year. I don't know. Double rainbow. So we talked about single rainbows. Well, if you have a very strong, powerful rainbow, like the sun is just really right on those raindrops, you can get another secondary bow known as a double rainbow. Sometimes the band between the rainbows is also slightly darker. It's always half the brightness as a primary rainbow. Hail. So hail is another form of precipitation. We talked about snow and rain earlier. Well, hail is like huge balls of ice, chunks of ice falling down. This is from water that gets caught in updrafts in large supercell thunderstorms. They reach a high altitude and then they freeze and then they drop down to the ground as like little pebbles. Sometimes they can become massive, AKA gorilla hail. Forked lightning. I don't know if this is really rare. I don't know. I mean, it's just kind of like normal lightning, but this is when lightning, you know, gets forked out and has two different sections. It's when two native leaders kind of meet at the same time. So you get like a double lightning effect. Heat lightning. Heat lightning is lightning that is too far away to hear. If you have a thunderstorm, like a hundred miles away and you see like the the sound cannot reach you. So all you do is see the flashes way off in the distance. You never hear thunder. That's heat lightning. They happen a lot in the summer when it's warmer out. You know, if you're, it's a summer evening and you're like how stargazing, but there's like a thunderstorm. This is such a vibe, by the way, it's like a thunderstorm off in the distance. Can you see the lightning from like the, the, the thundercloud, but you can't hear the thunder heat lightning. The opposite of summer is winter. And in the winter time, you can see a lot of sun dogs. Sun dogs are ice crystals refracting sunlight into the air. So we talked about the 22 degree halo. Well, sometimes along that 22 degree halo, you can get two spots on the left and the right of the sun that are super bright. And these are known as sun dogs, Aurora. So if you have some strong solar activity and that's sending some stuff towards our way, some sun debris, they can excite the particles in the upper atmosphere. And when they get excited, they lead to ionization, creating beautiful colors, the most common being green thundersnow. So thunderstorms usually occur in the summertime, in the springtime. They rarely occur in the wintertime, but if you have like a really strong blizzard, sometimes you can actually have some lightning with that blizzard lead to something known as a thundersnow. It's when you have lightning during a blizzard. Oh my goodness. Holy smoke. Pretty rare, actually. The next one is pretty cool and actually really common. So you should look for these if you get an opportunity. We're talking about circumzenithal arcs or CZAs. These are refractions of ice crystals through cirrus clouds. They're not as rare as you might think. They actually happen quite a bit. It's just you don't look at the sun when it's way up there very often. I mean, it's kind of weird for you to just be like at the sun. But if you do look up at the sun, you might see a circumzenithal arc. They're like an upside down rainbow. They look pretty cool. Very blue and yellow light pillars. Light pillars are another ice crystal related reflection. So if you have a lot of snow, a lot of ice in the air and there's like a bright light on the ground, it can shoot like a little light pillar up in the sky. One time when I was a kid, I saw this moving light beam in the sky. It freaked me out. I was like, what is going on? It was moving all over. It looked like a UFO kind of thing. It was creepy. But then I got closer to it and I saw it was a train. It was just a train with a headlight and that headlight was creating a light pillar. So not a UFO. Ribbon lightning. Ribbon lightning is when you have lightning in super windy conditions and it flashes and that plasma can kind of move it a little bit. So you get like parallel lightning strikes. Pretty cool. Dust devil. So dust devils. Dust devils occur quite a bit in the, you know, sandy areas. We talked about mirages and how the ground can be really hot compared to the atmosphere above. Well, that can happen in like the desert a lot or on Mars. What happens is that hot air slowly rises because heat rises and then when it rises up, it can kind of create a little eddy of sand or dirt or whatever. It's a dust devil. Pretty rare, but not super rare. I've been seeing a lot of them lately because I live by a lot of cornfields and it's like all dirt right now. So there's no corn actually on the field. So with all this sun right on the hot dirt, you get a little bit of a green sky. So when the sky is green, sometimes people kind of think about tornadoes with green skies. Well, what really is happening is if the sun is near sunset or it's lower in the horizon and it's going through a lot of different layers of thunderstorm, it can kind of pass through looking green. It's like when red hues from that sunset go through a thunderstorm, they look green. It doesn't always mean there's a tornado, but it could because they are associated with strong, large thunderstorms. Contrail shadow. So a contrail shadow is sometimes a plane or whatever leaves a little contrail in the sky. And then like I said earlier, the atmosphere has all this dirt, all this debris, all this dust suspended, and then it can actually cast a shadow on that dust leading to a black line in the sky. I actually took a photo of this right here like three days ago. See contrail shadow. Bead lightning. So bead lightning is not, I mean, this occurs with like all lightning strikes mostly, but you can really see it when you're really close to a lightning strike. So if the lightning is like really close to you, you can kind of see it break up into little segments as it, you know, dissipates. This is known as bead lightning. Comet. The very last natural phenomena of this layer is the comet. So a comet is an icy body way up in space, originates in the Oort cloud, usually kind of comes down, gets close to the sun. As it gets closer to the sun, it heats up, starts shedding all this debris and this gas, creating like a little, you know, a little comet. There's always comets that you can find if you have like a telescope. So they're not super rare. Um, and that's why it's in this portion of the list, but we're going to talk about great comets later down the list. Speaking of later down the list, we are now in the next chapter. Rare phenomena. So this stuff is not common. It's not, you know, something that you'd see during a typical year. It's rare. It's not super rare, but it's rare. And we're starting off with the fire rainbow, the circumhorizontal arc. It's just another form of ice refraction through cirrus clouds. Certain areas of the world get this quite a bit in certain areas, like never get it. So it all depends on your latitude because of the way that the sun angles, but overall it's somewhat rare. The white rainbow or fog bow is when little tiny droplets reflect light. So like if it's foggy and then you're like right above the fog, you can get like, if you're in like a plane, for example, you can kind of see a little white rainbow as the sun reflects off of that fog on the ground. A fog bow. I shouldn't even say rainbow. It's a fog bow. They're pretty cool looking. If it's like foggy and you get kind of lucky with like the sunlight, like the fog is like going past you and then you're on the clear, you're on the other side of the blue sky and the fog is next to you. If you look at the back at the fog at the anti-solar point, you'll probably see a fog bow. Fall streak hole. Fall streak holes occur a lot in the fall. That's why they're called fall streak holes. But it's like when you have a layer of moisture of clouds and then something happens, like maybe a plane or something like changes the pressure in a certain area, it creates a little chain effect where they all turn into little ice crystals and start falling. Of course, they melt before they hit the ground, so they don't actually reach the ground, but they create this cool looking fall streak hole. I've personally never actually seen one of these, so I need to find one. Next up is the green flash. Kind of a rare phenomena, kind of not a rare phenomena, depends on where you live and if you're a pilot, but this is caused by atmospheric refraction. So when the sun is setting for like at the very end of the sunset, you can get a fleeting green light right above the sun called a green flash. It's quick, aka green flash, but it's just atmospheric refraction. Brockinspector and glories. So a brockinspector is one of the spookiest natural phenomenas that you can see. They occur a lot on top of mountains, so if you're like hiking on a mountain and there's fog below you, we talked about the fog bow kind of, there's fog below you and the sun is reflecting your shadow onto the fog, it can look like a scary looking ghost with a glory around it. This right here, this colorful area is known as a glory. These are pretty rare actually. Technically you could create it with like headlights on a foggy day if you wanted to, but in terms of pure nature, they're pretty rare. Red sprites. Red sprites are a really interesting natural phenomenon. These occur when lightning ionizes the air above the thunderstorm. They create a little red, it's like a little red aurora for like two seconds. Supernumerary bow. So the tiny little droplets within rainbows can kind of create a little echoing effect. This is known as a supernumerary bow. I cannot say that. They're not really super well understood. They think it might be some sort of echoing effect with physics. I don't know, but they look pretty trippy. Triple rainbow. Specifically the reflection bow. So when you get a rainbow, the sun is reflecting sunlight off of those raindrops, right? Well if there's a lake, sometimes you can get it reflecting off the lake too. So you get two light sources, which creates like a reflection bow. If it's a really strong rainbow, you have your primary bow, your secondary bow, and this reflection bow creating a triple rainbow and sometimes a quadruple rainbow. Pretty sweet. Noctilucent clouds. These are tiny little dust particles high up in the atmosphere that ice crystals form around, creating really cool looking clouds. These are like really high altitude clouds. So if like a meteor, for example, burns through the atmosphere, it kind of leaves all this dust. This is way up in the mesosphere. Leaves all this little particulate behind it. Ice crystals can water and ice crystals can form around this little dust. They then reflect light, causing noctilucent clouds. Can happen a lot with rocket launches too, because when the rocket's way up there, all that exhaust fume debris comes out and then ice crystals attach to that. Noctilucent clouds. Moonbow. A moonbow is a rainbow caused from moonlight. Not as rare as one might think, but pretty difficult to see. Lenticular clouds. These are the crazy UFO looking clouds. These are caused by like air flows bouncing off of mountains. So you have like a mountain, the air runs into the mountain, it like shoots up. Condensation forms like these stacked layered effects. Pretty common near mountains, more rare far away from mountains, but like buildings can even cause lenticular clouds. A horseshoe vortex. This is just a little vortex, like a little cloud up in the sky that looks like a horseshoe that's like traveling. It's kind of, if a certain, you know, windy condition occurs, you kind of form a little eddy that travels across the sky. I've never seen this, but it sounds very cool. Cloud iridescence. This is when sunlight is diffracted through ice crystals up in the atmosphere. So you can see it a lot on top of like cumulonimbus clouds. So cumulonimbus clouds way up in the high altitude that can turn into ice crystals. I forgot what the name of that type of cloud is, but if the sun diffracts through this and cause cloud iridescence. Iridescence is like that, like, you know, when you look at like oil and it's got like that color-y look to it, that's, that's iridescent. Cloud iridescence is just those kind of colors being seen through ice crystals diffracting through sunlight. Circumscribed halo. So we talked about the 22 degree halo earlier. That's that, you know, that faint halo around caused by ice crystals. Well, on rare occasions, you can get like kind of an oval circumscribed halo. It's also pretty colorful. Blue jets. Now these, these are cool. This is lightning from positively charged areas in the upper atmosphere that discharge up into the sky, like towards a natively charged region higher up in the atmosphere, creating a blue jet. And they can also lead to red sprites. Very cool. It's like an upward lightning. They weren't even discovered until like somewhat recently. But if you know where to look, you can probably see this. St. Elmo's fire. So this is like an electrical discharge of something on the ground. So if you have like a electrically charged atmosphere that varies very differently from something on the ground and can kind of lead to a little bit of a electric discharge. It also occurs when there's a lot of static electricity buildup. Sometimes with helicopters, they throw out in the desert and they turn on their, whatever those things are called propellers. It can lead to some St. Elmo's fire phenomena because it's all that static electricity is being discharged. Happens in planes a lot. So the plane has a specific electrical charge and the atmosphere's electric charge is very different from the plane, which leads to a little bit of a, you know, a little discharge. It's safe. Don't worry. You don't need to be worried if there's St. Elmo's fire on your plane. It's also a good 80s. Is it an 80s movie or sitcom? What is that? A bolide meteor, aka a fireball. This is like an exceptionally large meteor. Something that really is quite bright that you're like, oh dang. You can even see them during the day. They're pretty rare. I mean, I don't know if I've really truly seen one of these. Oftentimes they make the news or they get caught on a police dash cam. Really it's just a large meteor. Picket fence aurora. This is a weird aurora rare phenomena where for some reason it like divides into like a picket fence. It's not very well understood to be honest, but very cool looking. I've never seen this. Water spout. So water spout is a vortex above a body of water. Perhaps a lake. Perhaps an ocean. This is also caused by convection. There's cooler air temperatures and the water is hot and that leads to hot air rising and then that can often take the form of a vortex. These are very common in certain parts of the world like Florida and Louisiana. But moving on to the next level. Level four. Very rare phenomenon. So this stuff is quite rare. If you see any of these things and really take it in. Be like, oh my gosh. What a rare event. Let me witness this. We're starting off with the blue sky lightning. That sounds kind of weird. Lightning under a blue sky. Well, it is technically possible. This is also known as the bolt from the blue. So if you have like a huge thunderstorm, like a cumulonimbus cloud, lightning can actually come out the top of that cloud and go like far out of the thunderstorm into like a blue sky area and then hit the ground and then you have blue sky lightning. So it did come from a thunderstorm. It did originally come from a cloud, but that cloud is so far away that you really can't see it. Wagon wheel rainbow. This is when you get a mix of anti-crespecular rays with a rainbow and it creates this cool wagon wheel effect. I don't know if this is super rare, but it might be. I don't know. It's level four regardless. Total solar eclipse. So total solar eclipse is when the moon is in between the sun and the earth and it casts a little shadow on the earth. Now I've seen two of these, so it can't be that rare. Well, they actually are pretty rare if, you know, for any specific point on the earth. So back before we could predict these, the chances of you actually seeing a total solar eclipse were like maybe once in a lifetime, maybe like once in two lifetimes, once every 200 years. They're pretty rare. Perihelic circle. So we talked about the 22 degree halo. We talked about sun dogs. Well, this is another ice related arc that can occur in the sky. This is a circle that connects to the anti-solar point. It goes all the way around the horizon. People see them at ski resorts sometimes when they have a lot of snow debris up in the air, but I've never seen this. So it's got to be somewhat rare. Twinned rainbow. Now this is a weird, mysterious rainbow where a rainbow appears to kind of split in two halfway up the arc. Scientists aren't exactly sure what causes a twinned rainbow, but one theory is that there are slightly different water droplet sizes within the band leading to like a weird echoing effect. 46 degree halo. An outer halo. Much rarer than the 22 degree halo. So we talked about the double rainbow, right? Well, this is kind of like the double rainbow of halos. You get that 22 degree halo in the middle, and then sometimes on a rare occasion, it can actually, with ideal conditions, you get a secondary 46 degree halo that's even further out from the sun. Meteor thunder. So thunder is when you hear, you know, a lightning strikes and then you hear it because, you know, it causes a lot of energy. Lightning does. Well, same is true with the meteors. If a meteor is close enough or bright enough, you can actually hear the shockwave from that meteor. Meteor thunder. Here's an example right here. Blue, purple, and red aurora. So aurora is usually green, right? But on rare occasions, if during an extremely strong aurora display, you can get rare colors such as a blue, purple, and red. Tornado. This channel is pretty much about tornadoes. Yeah, tornadoes are actually super rare. Like you could live in Kansas your entire life and not see a tornado. Yes, people like Ree Timmer and other storm chasers see tornadoes all the time, but for any given person, especially anyone outside of the U.S., seeing a tornado is extremely rare. If you live in like France or something, the odds of you seeing a tornado in your lifetime are like very small. What is the tornado? Well, it is a violently spinning column of air and debris from a supercell. There's also a multi-vortex tornado, which is when there's multiple vortices within a tornado. Not super rare when it comes to tornadoes in general, but for any given situation, very rare. So we're talking about some of the weird arcs that you can see at the sun's, the anti-solar point, the antelian arcs. Sometimes on super rare occasions, you can see sun dogs at the anti-solar point, and you can also see something known as a tricker arc. This is like a little loop-de-loop. These arcs are super rare. I mean, you have to be living in like a polar region or be at a ski resort to see something like this. These are very rare, very cool. The superbolt. A superbolt is an exceptionally large bolt of lightning. We're talking like one out of every 100,000 lightning bolts. These are very rare, and they're a thousand times stronger than your typical lightning bolt. So this is like a whoopie, like a super intense lightning strike. A volcanic eruption slash lightning. To actually see a volcanic eruption is a pretty exceptional event. I will never see one of these, most likely, because I don't live near a volcano. I mean, I guess I have been to Hawaii. Okay, certain volcanic eruptions are super rare, and to get lightning associated within a volcanic eruption, also quite rare. The Cretaceous clouds. These are high-altitude clouds that create a mother-of-pearl color effect. This is a form of iridescence formed by super high-altitude ice crystals in polar regions. They're very striking. These are like rainbow-y clouds, and we've talked about iridescence earlier. This is kind of the same thing, but more collected, more put together. Somewhat common in polar regions, but rare for most people here on Earth. Steve. This is a pink ribbon that occurs often with picket fence aurora. It's like this high-energy beam that goes across the sky. I don't know what this is. I'll just be honest. I tried reading about it, and it was like, people were like, scientists may have discovered what Steve is. And I was like, okay, did they actually? People don't really know, okay? But there's this weird ribbon that can occur with very strong geomagnetic storms. In fact, they usually occur at lower latitudes. So if you live in a place that doesn't usually get aurora, you do have a higher chance of seeing a Steve. Disappearing star. Now this sounds kind of weird. A disappearing star, what's up with that? This is actually pretty fascinating. So on a super rare occasion, you can actually get an asteroid way out there, out in space, that from your point of view here on Earth, can actually go in between you and a star. I don't know why I'm holding this pen. You know, between you and a star, and then that star will disappear for like a few seconds. They do occur every so often. One happened in New York not too long ago. One also happened with Betelgeuse. A pretty cool event. A strong geomagnetic storm. So this is like your Carrington event kind of situation. This is maybe a once-in-a-lifetime sort of thing. This is when you have a huge geomagnetic storm from the sun that just blasts Earth with some crazy aurora displays. Probably once out of every 150 years or so. Some people debate that we had one last year. We did have a strong geomagnetic storm last year, but I don't know if I would classify it as like a super geomagnetic event, storm event. I don't know. But that concludes this layer. We're now moving on to So all this stuff is real, all right? But it is so rare. If you see this, like, you've seen some things. Starting with the fire tornado. So if you have a huge wildfire, it can often actually create its own updraft. It can create its own thunderstorm known as a firestorm. This is like a pyrocumulonimbus cloud. And anyway, you can get enough rotation in that cloud to actually form a tornado, like a strong tornado, like an F3 tornado even. Very rare. In fact, there's only ever been one tornado warning ever issued with a fire tornado, and that was in 2020. You do have like fire whirls as well, which is different. That's like a kind of like a little dust devil out of fire. Those are a lot more common. I mean, they're still rare. You don't want to be near one of these. But I'm talking about like a full-on circulation fire tornado with wind speeds over 150 miles per hour. Next up is a dark day. Yes, a dark day. What is a dark day? Well, a dark day is when you're just chilling, and all of a sudden, like, it gets super dark. I know it sounds crazy, but it's super dark, like nighttime. But it's not night, all right? This has happened a few times. One time it happened in New England. The main theory with these is that there's like a huge wildfire somewhere, and then like all the smoke coagulated together, and for some reason, that blocked out the sun, creating a dark day. Dark days only last for like an hour. It's not a total solar eclipse either. Some people get that confused. Total solar eclipses last for like two to six minutes. A dark day lasts for like an hour. Kind of a weird thing. That's not 100% understood, but they definitely do occur. Crown flash. What on earth is a crown flash? I don't even really know. But this is when you have like a cumulus cloud, and those little ice crystals on top of the cumulus cloud, and they start like shooting out in like this weird aurora, like jet stream fashion, and they act really weird. Like they're very erratic. They kind of dance. The main theory with these is that there's some sort of electrical current, and the ice crystals are like in the current, and they're like dancing around. This is crazy. I really want to see this. I mean, it's like a stream spitting out of a cloud. It's weird. Next up is the Great Comet. So about once every maybe 50 years, you can have a great comet. This is a comet that is exceptionally bright. One that like you can easily see, and you're like, oh my word. I think the last technical, I mean there was, I think the southern hemisphere has had a couple of great comets recently. They had Comet Mignot back in like 2007. Like these can be brighter than the full moon. Like they're ridiculous events. The last really good one was back in the 1960s. I'm hoping we get one soon. They usually come with sun grazing comets. Comets that get really close to the sun. When they get really close to the sun, it just like heats them up, and they just kind of explode with light. Very rare. Very cool. A water spout cluster. I did a video on these recently, but this is when you have, instead of one water spout, you have like a little swarm of water spouts. If conditions are just right, lots of water spouts can form. They can even be somewhat close to each other, creating like a creepy Cthulhu effect. These happen every so often, but you know, to actually be on the coast and to see one of these is very rare. A Kern arc. This arc is the rarest of all ice arcs. This is like a weird ring-shaped arc that occurs right here. Conditions have to be super perfect for this to occur. Like you have to have the exact shape ice crystal for this to actually occur. It's only been photographed like once. So this is exceptionally rare. A fish fall. Sometimes it rains water. Sometimes it rains fish. And yeah, it's, there's been verified fish falls throughout history. The Leon theory is that a water spout sucked these up into the cloud, and then they rained on a neighboring town. I mean, with tornadoes, for example, there was actually tornado debris near my house, like within a thousand feet of my house last year from the Greenfield, Iowa tornado, because it sucked up stuff. And that was like over 80 miles away. So that's the leading theory with the fish fall, a tornado or a water spout sucks up a bunch of fish, and then they go way up high into the sky, and then they fall over some neighboring town. A pretty interesting event. Next up is a great meteor. Now this is like a huge meteor. These occur, these actually occur probably once every 10 years, but usually they occur over the ocean. So we don't see them. The last one being the Chelyabinsk event over Russia. This is like a massive meteor that can actually be quite hazardous, can lead to injuries if it's over, you know, a specific area. Perhaps the worst great meteor in the past 100 years was the Tunguska event, when a massive meteor occurred again over Russia, and no one saw the event, but it like tore down a bunch of trees. It was crazy. And some people even think that this lake right here was created by the actual meteorite. I mean, it's possible. I don't know if, I mean, technically, I don't know if the Tunguska event is really a great meteor. It's more of like an asteroid impact event. But I mean, before it impacted the ground, it was definitely a pretty bright meteor. And you don't want one of these happening near you. Earthquake lights. So sometimes weird flashes of lights can occur with earthquakes, like before earthquakes or shortly after earthquakes. It's a little bit unknown, kind of a little bit of a mysterious event. But the leading theory is that little gases are escaping from the ground because the ground's becoming all jacked from the earthquake. And those gases then like light on fire and create little flashes of light. Earthquake lights. It could also be one of those, one of those crystals called, I can't think of the word, but they can actually create electricity. And maybe like the ground is like strained, and it's like creating some sort of light through the crust of the earth. I don't know, but they do occur. They're real. A Miyake event. A Miyake event is like a super solar geomagnetic storm. These occur very rarely, like once every like a thousand years. And we only know they exist by looking at tree rings. We don't want to be hit by a Miyake event. That would, that could easily destroy our grid. But yeah, they do exist. Elves. Okay, this one should probably be higher up on the list. But this is like the third highest level of like upper atmospheric lightning. We talked about blue jets. We talked about red sprites. Well, elves are like these little rings that can occur above the red sprites. Another form of air ionization. Quite rare. There's only like a few photos of these that I could even find on the internet. A noticeable supernova. Yes! We've all heard of that one event that created the crab, what was it called, the crab nebula? That was caused by a supernova. So supernova is when a star explodes, somewhat nearby usually. And when that happens, it becomes very bright in the night sky. People are excited about Betelgeuse. They say Betelgeuse is going to go supernova any moment now. Probably not. But it could happen. And it would be very noticeable and very bright. A lunar flash or a TLP. These are flashes of lights on the surface of the moon. Sometimes they get caught on camera. These are actually very explainable. It's a meteor hitting the moon, causing the bright flash. Hardly anyone has actually seen one of these in person. Like you just happen to be looking at your telescope and you just happen to see a meteorite slam into the moon. A rare occasion indeed. And finally, the last phenomena on this layer is the meteor storm. We've talked about, oh did I not talk about meteor showers? I forgot about meteor showers. Meteor storms are like meteor showers on steroids. There was a great meteor storm of 1823 where literally thousands, like hundreds of thousands of meteors were seen an hour. Like it was just raining meteors. These occur when we happen to pass through a very dense collection of rocks in space. Usually from a comet. Yeah they happen like once every 100 years. But they can be somewhat predictable. So there might be one in 2033 or 2034. So stay tuned for that. We have now made it to the final level. Level six. Mythical natural phenomena. This stuff, it might not even exist. But there are reports. So maybe it does exist. But probably not. But maybe. I don't know. The first one is the will-o'-the-wisp. This is a weird, like in swamp areas people have described seeing like a hovering kind of ghost looking thing. Like in the swamp. People don't know if this actually exists. It's kind of like a weird, like these were reported a lot in like the 19th century. Way back in the day. But no one reports them now. No one's got you know video evidence of them now. So do they ever exist? Maybe. You know these did occur in swamp areas. And swamp areas have kind of been destroyed because of like you know development and stuff. But the theory is that a gas bubble, you know since swamps are you know decaying all that vegetation. It's you know decaying and gases are you know seeping through the water. You know the bubbles that you see. Swamp bubbles. And maybe that gas lights on fire creating a will-o'-the-wisp. Probably not real. But pretty interesting. Ball lightning. This one is weird because it's been reported. Okay this is technically real. Like it's been created in a lab. Some people swear that they've seen it. But you have reports from all over the world. Like Japan, Europe, North America. People describing lightning in a form of a ball. And it lasts for like 20 seconds plus. Like up to five minutes. And it just just like travels all over the place. There's some kind of fake-ish looking videos online of this sort of phenomena. The problem is you know there were a lot of reports back in the day. But the reports have kind of stopped happening. Why have they stopped happening? Like the moment we invented cell phones they have seemed to have disappeared. I don't know. I believe in ball lightning because I want it to exist. Because it sounds sweet. And maybe that you know there's like incidents where like people were injured from ball lightning. So there could be like a big ball lightning incident that we'll hear about in the future. We'll just have to wait and see. Glowing tornadoes. Yes this is this was one of the craziest ones natural phenomenas ever. If it even exists. So way back in 1955 there was a large massive tornado that hit the town of Blackwell, Oklahoma. It occurred around the same time as the Udall, Kansas F5 tornado. Anyways this tornado apparently glowed in the dark. Like the trail was traveling down the you know through the fields. And it not only was it glowing but it had like orbs around it. Like rotating around the maybe it's ball lightning rotating around the tornado. Very mysterious. But lots of reports of this actually happening now. It's possible that maybe there was some sort of St. Elmo's fire effect going on. We talked about how static electricity can be built up from you know like with the helicopter example. Remember with the lights and stuff like that. Perhaps something like that was occurring with the Blackwell glowing tornado. Not 100% for sure on that. Also maybe it just happened to hit like a like electrical grid and it was just glowing for five seconds and people misremember it as being like glowing for a long time. I don't know. Kind of terrifying. Glowing water spouts. Now this this could actually happen under an extremely rare circumstance. There have been a few reports of glowing water spouts. The leading theory is that like you know bioluminescence or certain types of organisms that glow light in nature. And the theory is that these get picked up by a tornado or I mean by a water spout. And that water spout then glows because it's full of bioluminescent related organisms. That'd be sweet to see. Ghost lights. Ghost lights are just unknown lights. Like there's there's lots of examples of these. There's the Marfa lights. For some reason people report seeing lights over the Texas plains. There's also the Appalachian Mountain lights. A lot of lights in the hills of the Appalachian Mountains just kind of hovering around. Pretty mysterious phenomenon. I think that someone just needs to get a drone and fly them to the lights to see what is going on. People say they could be Will of the Wisps up in the mountains. A witnessed meteor impact. Yeah. So we've heard of meteors. We've heard of bolides aka fireballs. And we've heard of super great meteors like the Tunguska event. What about actually witnessing a meteorite hit the ground? Super rare. Like you have to be the luckiest or maybe unluckiest person to ever witness something like this. It's been caught on tape once recently. It wasn't super exciting. It kind of sounded like glass hitting the ground. But witnessing something like this would be insane. People have. I mean there are lots of reports throughout history. They can be pretty easy to witness. If you get like a large like a rather large meteor it can actually rain down a ton of little bevels all over the place. But actually being within like the line within the firing line of a meteor and then seeing it hit the ground. Astronomically rare. Finally the last event on our list. An asteroid impact. Yeah this is not a natural phenomenon that you want to see. This is when a large asteroid hits the planet and it can actually probably cause a lot of the different weird natural phenomenons on today's list. Yeah not a good event. You don't want to witness this would kill everybody and they happen maybe one million years. Quite a rare event. So be careful. But that does conclude today's list. Thank you so much for watching. Which natural phenomenon did I miss? There was one that was written about like just like literally five minutes ago that was about like a circle of flowers like on the ground. I didn't include that on today's list but it sounds crazy. Anyway thank you so much for watching and we'll see you next time.