Whoever said that lightning doesn’t strike the same place twice has never been to northwestern Venezuela. The mouth of the Catatumbo River, which sits at the southern end of Lake Maracaibo in the ...
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The Venezuelan lake with killer lightning
Where the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, lightning strikes up to 300 times a year for as many as 9 hours a night. "Catatumbo Lightning," also known as the Maracaibo Beacon, holds ...
Americans honor the loss 24 years after the devastating World Trade Center, Pentagon and thwarted Flight 93 9/11 terrorist attacks. by StormWatch7 Meteorologist Rachael Kaye TOPICS: While we're ...
Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...
Residents of Venezuela have been treated to a light show that has been going on for thousands of years. One spot on the Catatumbo River gets, regularly, forty thousand bolts every night. The lightning ...
Catatumbo lightning phenomenon mysterious disappeared for months in 2010. August 2, 2011— -- A mysterious symphony of rapid-fire lightning bolts used to create the greatest light show on Earth ...
AT THE mouth of the Catatumbo River that divides Colombia and Venezuela, a unique natural phenomenon takes place--every other night on average--above the marshlands where the river empties into Lake ...
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