The world around is interesting not only for its beauty, but also for its dynamism. Change of seasons, changes in weather or flight of a sparrow, change of color of a hare, rust and salt formation are all phenomena. This is a huge group of processes occurring in nature. They are different - dangerous and beautiful, rare and daily, there are a lot of them.
Main groups
What are the phenomena, how do they affect a person’s life? All these issues are key in understanding nature. And there is no way to do without research. It is one thing when scientists research a phenomenon like rain, and another when it comes to tornadoes or sandstorms. There is a recognized classification of natural phenomena:
- Chemical processes, they are also natural. We meet them every day in the form of souring milk or the formation of rust on the metal.
- Biological ones are those that occur with wildlife. These include falling leaves or flying butterflies. That is what phenomena are in biology.
- Physical - the conversion of water into ice or simply a change in the state of aggregation of a substance.
All this people observe daily, they’re even used to something. Sometimes something amazing happens that makes one break one's head or dig into research. Many scientists have already found explanations, but puzzles remain. A puzzle for all of humanity is what natural phenomena are.
Those that bring death
The most dangerous and unpredictable are:
- Ball lightning is a purely electric phenomenon of a spherical shape, which has truly fantastic capabilities. Despite the fact that it looks beautiful, it can kill a person if it explodes nearby. In addition, ball lightning is able to appear in the most unexpected places and just as suddenly disappear.
- The tsunami is, in fact, only a tidal wave, but it can reach very large sizes, up to hundreds of kilometers in length, and in height - several tens of meters. This is a very terrible phenomenon, it comes suddenly and ends just as quickly, leaving behind the devastation and the dead.
- Volcanic eruptions - little can compete with him on danger. With this phenomenon, not only streams of hot liquid stone - magma spill out, but explosions also occur, very large and thick clouds of ash appear. The most dangerous moments near an active volcano are the beginning of the process. After a few hours, the lava will flow measured and calm, continuing to destroy everything in its path, but not so intensively.
- Avalanche and landslides are a bit similar. The essence is the same - there is a movement of loose masses that are not able to stay in the same place and are too heavy. Soil is typical only for a landslide, and snow for an avalanche.
We can safely say that their mass. What are such phenomena? Danger and fear. But there are harmless ones, which are just a beautiful sight.
Those that break the worldview
Nature is fascinating, often there are such phenomena that have explanations, but from this they do not cease to be beautiful and attract the attention of mankind. The most famous include:
- Aurora, someone easier to call it northern. It looks like multi-colored stripes of radiance that move and can occupy the entire visible space of the sky.
- The migration of monarch butterflies. This is something fascinating and inexplicable for a simple layman. Every year, monarch butterflies overcome huge distances, even one creature of this species is beautiful, and if there are hundreds of them?
- The lights of St. Elmo - this is what is unusual and a little frightening. In the Middle Ages, it was it that portended the death of ships. In fact, these lights are not dangerous, they arise before a severe thunderstorm, this means a global storm at sea, you do not need to be afraid of them.
There are a lot of beautiful and interesting things around, very rarely people can see all the phenomena at once. There are those that are tied to a season or a month, dawn or sunset, but there are those that happen once every hundred years, it is very difficult to wait for them.
The scariest
Nature has not neglected the creation of frightening natural phenomena.
Not only horror films can make a person afraid. There are several rather terrible events that at first scared people. But after a detailed study, it turned out that these are just non-standard, but familiar to people, natural processes. Here they are:
- Bloody rain. Blood poured from the sky in Kerala in India for a month. Residents were so scared that a general panic began. And the thing is that the tornado, which did not go so far, pulled into itself the spores of red algae, which made the water turn bloody. Tornadoes are often swallowed up by something unusual; history knows cases when toads or birds flew from heaven.
- Black fog is not only an eerie, but also a very rare occurrence. It happens only in one city in the world - London. This happened only a few times during the entire existence of the city, in the last two centuries only three cases have been recorded: 1873, 1880 and 1952. The black fog is very dense, while it lies above the city, people have to move to the touch. In addition, during the last “attack” of the fog, mortality increased very much, and it was not a matter of poor visibility. The air was so thick that it was very difficult to breathe, mostly those who had disturbances in the respiratory system died.
- Another terrible phenomenon was recorded in 1938 on the Yamal Peninsula, called it "rainy day." The thing is that so thick clouds hung over the ground that it was not just dark, in general no light penetrated. When the geologists working on the site decided to launch rockets, they saw only the surface of dense fog.
The world is multifaceted, beautiful and unusual. Often nature throws us riddles, which then solve entire generations. You need to carefully look around so as not to miss the phenomenon of the next "miracle."