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Dirty Thunderstorms: aka volcanic lightning, occur when lightning is produced in a volcanic plume.



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Flammable Ice Bubbles: frozen bubbles of methane, trapped beneath Alberta’s Lake Abraham.


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The Catumbo Lightning: which occurs during 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per night and up to 280 times per hour.


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Christmas Island’s Red Crabs: Each year an estimated 43 million land crabs migrate to lay their eggs in the ocean.


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Monarch Butterflies: The eastern North American population is notable for its southward late summer/autumn migration from the USA and Canada to Mexico, covering thousands of kilometers.



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Surreal Spiderwebs: Fleeing torrential floodwaters near Wagga Wagga, Australia, thousands of spiders cover fields with cobwebs.



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Namibia’s mysterious Fairy Circles: Studies suggest that a sand termite is responsible for their creation.


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Underwater Crop Circles: In the ocean off Japan: created by a male pufferfish in order to woo females.


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The Black Sun: Huge flocks of up to 50,000 starlings form in areas of the UK just before sundown during mid-winter. They are known as murmurations.



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Lenticular Clouds over Mount Olympus: stationary lens-shaped clouds that form in the troposphere. Because of their shape, they have been offered as an explanation for some UFO sightings.


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Light Pillars: An optical phenomenon formed by the reflection of sunlight or moonlight by ice crystals that are present in the Earth’s atmosphere.


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Mammatus Clouds: aka “mammary clouds” or “breast clouds”: a meteorological term applied to a rare pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud.


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Polar Stratospheric Clouds: also known as nacreous clouds (from nacre, or mother of pearl, due to their iridescence).


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Undulatus Asperatus: aka “roughened or agitated waves”: This cloud formation has been proposed as a separate cloud classification by the founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society and would be the first new type of cloud recognised since 1951.


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Bioluminescent Waves: On a beach in the Maldives: Various species of phytoplankton are known to bioluminesce; when washed ashore by the tides, their chemical energy is turned into light energy.


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The world is such a fascinating place, I've seen a couple of these. The "rolling rocks" are also pretty interesting.
 
MisterLonely said:
Rainbow mountains in China... and yes it it real...

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Oh wow. I have seen something similar, but nothing of this scale before. That makes me want to visit
 

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