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Over 222,000 lightning strikes were detected over Greece, Turkey, the Black Sea, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Albania, and the Mediterranean Sea in the two days prior to Tuesday evening local time.
Lightning is a natural phenomenon, more specifically an atmospheric electrical phenomenon. It consists of electrostatic discharges occurring through the atmosphere between two electrically charged regions, either both existing within the atmosphere or one within the atmosphere and one on the ground, with these regions then becoming partially or wholly electrically neutralized.
The phenomenon sees the highest density of lightning in the world, at 250 per km 2. [5] In summers, the phenomenon may even occur as dry lightning without rainfall. [6] The lightning changes its flash frequency throughout the year, and it is different from year to year.
Global map of lightning frequency--strikes/km 2 /yr. The high lightning areas are on land located in the tropics. Areas with almost no lightning are the Arctic and Antarctic, closely followed by the oceans which have only 0.1 to 1 strikes/km 2 /yr. The map on the right shows that lightning is not distributed evenly around the planet. [5]
Here are additional clues for each of the words in today's Mini Crossword. NYT Mini Across Hints 1 Across: Streak of lightning — HINT: It starts with the letter "B"
Storm Daniel, also known as Cyclone Daniel, was a catastrophic tropical cyclone that became the deadliest Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone in recorded history, as well as one of the costliest tropical cyclones on record outside of the North Atlantic Basin.
The U.S. record is 12 inches in a single hour. That happened in a lake-effect snow band east of Lake Ontario in Copenhagen, New York, on Dec. 2, 1966, according to a list of record snowfall rates ...
The main Zanclean flood may have been preceded by an earlier smaller flood event, [10] [44] and the presence of deep sea terraces has been used to infer that the refilling of the Mediterranean occurred in several pulses. [45] Complete refilling of the Mediterranean may have taken about a decade. [7]