20 amazing natural phenomena that are hard to believe (23 photos)
Sometimes we forget how diverse and beautiful our world is. How many amazing things happen around us while we are busy with routine things? The fantasy of nature knows no bounds, and these photographs prove it.
1. Cloud "Winnie the Pooh"
The cloud was photographed by a resident of Dorset, UK, in 2016.
2. Mud thunderstorms
This phenomenon is characterized by the formation of lightning in the ash cloud rising from the crater of a volcano during an eruption.
3. Snow pipes
An active volcano in Antarctica, Mount Erebus.
4. Maelstrom
A whirlpool in the Norwegian Sea off the northwestern coast of Norway.
5. Light pillars
A visual atmospheric phenomenon caused by the reflection of sunlight off the surface of tiny ice crystals suspended in the air.
6. Ice flowers of the Arctic
Crystals several centimeters high that form on the surface of a thin layer of ice.
7. Spotted Lake
A lake in Canada containing the world's largest concentration of magnesium, calcium, sodium, as well as silver and titanium sulfate.
8. Lake Natron
Mineral lake in Tanzania, the only breeding site of the lesser flamingo.
9. Great Blue Hole
A karst sinkhole with a diameter of 305 meters, going to a depth of 120 meters off the coast of Belize.
10. Murmuration
Thousands of starlings flock together and put on a spectacular show in the sky.
11. "Magic Circles"
Scientists say these circles in Namibia are the work of termites
12. Underwater circles
These circles are created by male pufferfish to attract females.
13. Migration of red crabs
More than 120 million red crabs migrate through Christmas Island every year.
14. Catatumbo Lightning
A natural phenomenon that occurs above the confluence of the Catatumbo River and Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. Up to 28 lightning strikes per minute are observed.
15. Darvaza
Gas crater in Turkmenistan.
16. Ice bubbles
Methane bubbles rising from the bottom of Lake Abraham, Canada.
17. Giant's Causeway
A natural monument in Northern Ireland made of approximately 40,000 interconnected basalt columns formed as a result of an ancient volcanic eruption.
18. Round-horizontal arc
A rare optical effect that occurs in the upper layers of cirrus clouds when sunlight is refracted passing through horizontally located flat hexagonal ice crystals.
19. Lenticular cloud
Such clouds form on the crests of air waves or between two layers of air.
20. "Sea of Stars"
Waves with luminescent plankton on the Maldivian beaches.
