Rare discharges of lightning strike the ice of Antarctica: this is an event that occurs once or twice every ten years.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himRare discharges of lightning strike the ice of the Arctic: according to the National Weather Service, this is an event that occurs once or twice every ten years.
Le lightning storms and thunder of this incredibly hot summer is rolling over 48 US states, but not the Arctic Ocean - thousands of miles from the mainland. The National Weather Service confirmed on Tuesday that a terrible lightning storm struck the Arctic, producing between 100 and 200 lightning strikes when a massive heat wave swept across the region. North Slope, in Alaska.
Lightning storms in Alaska are a fairly common phenomenon, occurring every year. Some lightning strikes cause fires and the region is forced to seek help from other neighboring states to deal with the emergency. What made the last episode so unusual, therefore, is not so much the lightning storm itself, but rather the location in which it took place: it is extremely rare, in fact, for such a storm to develop this far north. right above the polar glaciers. According to experts, such a phenomenon at those latitudes occurs once or twice every ten years.
Once again, the fault lies with the climate crisis caused by human action, which has brought an unprecedented heat wave even in the traditionally coldest regions of the planet. The unprecedented heat caused the air to rise upwards and expand, creating a pressure deficit near the surface that was compensated for by windstorms transiting over the Arctic that created a 'vacuum' effect: like a vacuum cleaner in fact, the vacuum on the base sucked in eddies of colder air, and this alternation of currents generated the storm.
There were 6 lightning strikes in Alaska today, and 159 over the sea ice in the Beaufort Sea. #akwx @AlaskaWx pic.twitter.com/PL8i17gR3Z
— Brian Brettschneider (@Climatologist49) July 13, 2021
Already two years ago, Alaska meteorologists were amazed at a lightning storm that developed at an unprecedented latitude - nearly 300 miles from the North Pole - and called it one of the most northerly lightning storms that modern man could remember. The lightning storm of recent days was accompanied by a period of exceptionally high temperatures and the rapid melting of glaciers - yet another example of the rapidity with which the climate is changing, causing extreme reactions in all regions of the world.
Source: CIMSS
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