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Chile’s Dirty, Beautiful Thunderstorm.
Further to our theme today, come these pictures of the “dirty thunderstorm” created by Chile’s erupting Chaitén volcano, which started spewi...
Further to our theme today, come these pictures of the “dirty thunderstorm” created by Chile’s erupting Chaitén volcano, which started spewing lava, ash, and lightning (!) on May 3rd, after behaving itself for 9,000 years. Who angered the beast?!
From the full story in National Geographic:
“The little-understood storms may be sparked when rock fragments, ash,
and ice particles in the plume collide to produce static charges–just
as ice particles collide to create charge in regular thunderstorms.”
The pictures, by Carlos Gutierrez of UPI/Landov, are pretty incredible. Hopefully people are staying as safe as possible. Today’s color is purple.
I love the very slight variation on the theme. They remind me of Thomas Cole and David Caspar Friedrich.
I want them on my wall, big.
Thanks, Ken.
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