Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. For as long as people have traveled through Lake Maracaibo ...
The famous Catatumbo Lightning takes place over a lake in northwestern Venezuela most nights of the year. Evie Carrick is a writer and editor who’s lived in five countries and visited well over 50.
Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela was crowned "Earth's new lightning capital" by NASA in 2016. Why? The lake, about the size of Connecticut, gets an average of 300 thunderstorm nights per year. The ...
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 ...
Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela experiences the most intense lightning activity on Earth. Known as Catatumbo lightning or "the everlasting storm," this meteorological phenomenon produces up to 1,600 ...
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This remote lake is the world's capital of lightning—and it storms up to 300 nights a year
The famous Catatumbo Lightning takes place over a lake in northwestern Venezuela most nights of the year. In a remote part of northwestern Venezuela, there is a crack and flash of lightning most ...
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