Most surreal phenomena ever caught on camera 🧵
1. One of the most mysterious weather phenomena on Earth: meet the sprites
2. The coolest meteor video ever
3. This is a rare phenomenon, called 'cross waves'
4. Clouds look like an incoming tsunami
5. A granular flow
6. Volcanic lightning
7. Who’s gonna tell her?
8. The Qiantang bore is the largest tidal river bore in the world, travelling at speeds in excess of 15 mph.
9. A meteor fell near the most active volcano (Mount Merapi) in Indonesia
10. A spectacular iridescent cloud
11. Bubbles of methane under the ice in Lake Baikal
12. Rainbows are actually circles, a full circle is visible from a higher vantage point.
13. Ice Eggs - This rare phenomenon occurs when ice is rolled over by wind and water (Northern Finland)
14. Stunning sunset
This happens because of a phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering
15. The Northern Lights are real-life magic
16. This natural phenomenon is called the Giant's Causeway in N.Ireland
17. A series of wet microbursts captured in Perth, Australia.
18. Pink sunset over Vietnam
19. Northern lights over Tuscany, Italy.
20. The sea in the sky
Theresa Lucas took this incredible image of a cloud formation on June 18, 2022, as she was driving in north-central Minnesota.
21. The "Brocken spectre" phenomenon is produced when a person stands above the upper surface of a cloud - on a mountain or high ground - with the Sun behind them
22. Burning Stones
These type of stone vents mainly methane, mixed with hydrogen, nitrogen, light alkanes, CO2, and helium. The gas likely comes from organic-rich Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary rocks.
23. An eagle crossing a massive sun dog also known as Parhelion!
The sun dog is a member of the family of halos caused by the refraction of sunlight by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
24. Pileus clouds never fail to amaze when they grace the sky
25. Travel photographer Sarah Bethea captured this breathtaking photo in Iceland, where the setting sun's golden rays entered an ice cave, turning a section of the cave's ice amber
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