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nature can be as strange as it is
stunning
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
bizarrely beautiful natural phenomena if
you liked this video then you’ll love
the original content over at mojo
travels your source to help plan your
latest vacation or satisfy your
wanderlust for this list we’re looking
at weird natural events patterns and
formations that both astonish and awe
number 10 super cells the grandeur of a
good storm is difficult to deny super
cells are the perfect example colossal
rotating thunderstorms that lay bare the
awesome might of Mother Nature formed
when wind shear creates a deep rotating
updraft supercell spin around a central
vortex that seems set to swallow the
ground below the mammoth storms are as
dangerous as they are magnificent
generating powerful tornadoes and
hailstones larger than baseball’s thanks
to the Mezo cyclones at their heart
they’re also long-lasting often raging
for hours before their fury is spent
now that is intense number nine frost
flowers Nature doesn’t have to be big to
be beautiful or unusual these frozen
meadows of white flowers are actually
made from frost formed in calm windless
conditions on new sea and lake ice the
phenomenon is rare and occurs only when
there’s a significant temperature
difference between the air and the ice
which allows vapor to condense and grow
crystals that spread over the surface
ice crystals of all sorts often have
exquisite and organic looking structures
but the clustered nature and dendritic
architecture of frost flowers makes them
seem particularly plant like this is
nature’s frozen number eight lenticular
clouds when you think about it it’s
already kind of strange enough that vast
bodies of water are essentially drifting
over our heads but clouds also come in
particularly peculiar varieties
including mother-of-pearl nay crius
clouds turbulent rolling waves of
asparagus
and one of the oddest of all lenticular
clouds which are both stationary and
lens-shaped
they often form over mountains created
by winds that rise up and flow over in
oscillating waves on the other side
hovering over the earth like alien
motherships
they might be responsible for more than
a few UFO sightings the truth is out
there
number seven fire rainbows it isn’t a
metal band it isn’t fire and technically
it isn’t a rainbow either but circum
horizontal arcs colloquially known as
fire rainbows resemble both the latter
the bright multicolored bands which hang
parallel to the horizon beneath the Sun
or moon are halos created when light is
refracted through hexagonal ice crystals
suspended in Cirrus and cirrostratus
clouds since they only occur when light
hits the crystals at just the right
angle from high up in the sky solar
circum horizontal arcs are only visible
between the latitudes 55 degrees north
and 55 degrees south where when
conditions are right they streak across
the sky like colored flames number six
penitentes high up in the Andes in
argentina and chile frozen figures seem
to kneel in penance huddled together
facing the sun called penitentes these
ice shards some of which rise 16 feet
high resemble the pointed hoods worn in
penance processions during Spanish Holy
Week the semi-arid air at elevations of
over 13,000 feet in the Andes is so dry
that snow sublimates transforming into
vapor without melting
this forms depressions that trap
radiation and eventually just these
surreal fields of white spikes are left
behind
number five sailing stones in remote
ruggedly beautiful racetrack playa in
California’s Death Valley rocks sail
across the dry lakebed leaving long
trails in the sand for a century their
movements never observed remained
mysterious was it magnetism a teenage
prank did the rocks just want to move it
was only in 2013 that researchers
finally watched the stones in motion
using motion activated GPS and
time-lapse photography
out the thin sheets of ice blown across
the mud in the lake bed sometimes drag
the rocks with them creating the
illusion that they’re scuttling about
when no one is looking
number four rainbow eucalyptus up close
their trunks resemble abstract art more
than tree bark vibrant colors streak
down in careful layers the topmost like
long vertical brushstrokes on the wood
native to the Philippines Indonesia and
Papua New Guinea rainbow eucalyptus
trees are prized for their unusual
painted look as the trees thin outer
bark peels off the green bark beneath
changes color to blue purple orange and
finally maroon since the strips are shed
at different times the trees become
spectacular prismatic columns that can
tower up to 250 feet tall to quote a
renowned philosopher whoa number 3
volcanic lightning again not a bad name
although it should be volcanoes are the
ultimate symbols of nature’s power their
eruptions shake the earth blacken the
sky and set the ground on fire and as if
molten rock and pyroclastic clouds
weren’t enough volcanoes can also
generate lightning during a phenomenon
known as dirty thunderstorms ash
particles rub against each other the
friction moving electrons from one to
the other leaving them with positive or
negative charges as the particles hurtle
off into separate positively and
negatively charged areas electricity
flows between them and lightning
crackles through the plume and there’s
the shocking truth number 2
bioluminescent waves these waves light
up with a bizarre inner glow and seem to
leave behind stars stranded on the sand
the eerie electric light is created by
phytoplankton that react to mechanical
disturbances in the water during the day
they spread in algal blooms that stain
the sea red known as the red tide but at
night their biochemical reactions like
the water neon blue emitting flashes
that researchers think are supposed to
scare off potential predators
perhaps by attracting bigger fish to eat
whatever’s eyeing them up the enemy of
my enemy is my friend
right before we unveil our number-one
pick
number one Aurora’s most of the time we
are happily oblivious to the solar wind
that constantly pummels Earth’s magnetic
field but when the dancing light of
Aurora’s fans out across the sky where
suddenly witnessed two powers much
bigger than us Aurora’s occur in Earth’s
northern and southern regions when the
solar wind hits the magnetosphere
sending charged particles towards the
poles on a collision course with oxygen
and nitrogen atoms in the upper
atmosphere for viewers below it’s as if
a cosmic curtain has parted and we’ve
glimpsed normally invisible forces at
work the lights seem otherworldly and
remind us how weird and wonderful our
you [Music]
nature can be as strange as it is
stunning
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
bizarrely beautiful natural phenomena if
you liked this video then you’ll love
the original content over at mojo
travels your source to help plan your
latest vacation or satisfy your
wanderlust for this list we’re looking
at weird natural events patterns and
formations that both astonish and awe
number 10 super cells the grandeur of a
good storm is difficult to deny super
cells are the perfect example colossal
rotating thunderstorms that lay bare the
awesome might of Mother Nature formed
when wind shear creates a deep rotating
updraft supercell spin around a central
vortex that seems set to swallow the
ground below the mammoth storms are as
dangerous as they are magnificent
generating powerful tornadoes and
hailstones larger than baseball’s thanks
to the Mezo cyclones at their heart
they’re also long-lasting often raging
for hours before their fury is spent
now that is intense number nine frost
flowers Nature doesn’t have to be big to
be beautiful or unusual these frozen
meadows of white flowers are actually
made from frost formed in calm windless
conditions on new sea and lake ice the
phenomenon is rare and occurs only when
there’s a significant temperature
difference between the air and the ice
which allows vapor to condense and grow
crystals that spread over the surface
ice crystals of all sorts often have
exquisite and organic looking structures
but the clustered nature and dendritic
architecture of frost flowers makes them
seem particularly plant like this is
nature’s frozen number eight lenticular
clouds when you think about it it’s
already kind of strange enough that vast
bodies of water are essentially drifting
over our heads but clouds also come in
particularly peculiar varieties
including mother-of-pearl nay crius
clouds turbulent rolling waves of
asparagus
and one of the oddest of all lenticular
clouds which are both stationary and
lens-shaped
they often form over mountains created
by winds that rise up and flow over in
oscillating waves on the other side
hovering over the earth like alien
motherships
they might be responsible for more than
a few UFO sightings the truth is out
there
number seven fire rainbows it isn’t a
metal band it isn’t fire and technically
it isn’t a rainbow either but circum
horizontal arcs colloquially known as
fire rainbows resemble both the latter
the bright multicolored bands which hang
parallel to the horizon beneath the Sun
or moon are halos created when light is
refracted through hexagonal ice crystals
suspended in Cirrus and cirrostratus
clouds since they only occur when light
hits the crystals at just the right
angle from high up in the sky solar
circum horizontal arcs are only visible
between the latitudes 55 degrees north
and 55 degrees south where when
conditions are right they streak across
the sky like colored flames number six
penitentes high up in the Andes in
argentina and chile frozen figures seem
to kneel in penance huddled together
facing the sun called penitentes these
ice shards some of which rise 16 feet
high resemble the pointed hoods worn in
penance processions during Spanish Holy
Week the semi-arid air at elevations of
over 13,000 feet in the Andes is so dry
that snow sublimates transforming into
vapor without melting
this forms depressions that trap
radiation and eventually just these
surreal fields of white spikes are left
behind
number five sailing stones in remote
ruggedly beautiful racetrack playa in
California’s Death Valley rocks sail
across the dry lakebed leaving long
trails in the sand for a century their
movements never observed remained
mysterious was it magnetism a teenage
prank did the rocks just want to move it
was only in 2013 that researchers
finally watched the stones in motion
using motion activated GPS and
time-lapse photography
out the thin sheets of ice blown across
the mud in the lake bed sometimes drag
the rocks with them creating the
illusion that they’re scuttling about
when no one is looking
number four rainbow eucalyptus up close
their trunks resemble abstract art more
than tree bark vibrant colors streak
down in careful layers the topmost like
long vertical brushstrokes on the wood
native to the Philippines Indonesia and
Papua New Guinea rainbow eucalyptus
trees are prized for their unusual
painted look as the trees thin outer
bark peels off the green bark beneath
changes color to blue purple orange and
finally maroon since the strips are shed
at different times the trees become
spectacular prismatic columns that can
tower up to 250 feet tall to quote a
renowned philosopher whoa number 3
volcanic lightning again not a bad name
although it should be volcanoes are the
ultimate symbols of nature’s power their
eruptions shake the earth blacken the
sky and set the ground on fire and as if
molten rock and pyroclastic clouds
weren’t enough volcanoes can also
generate lightning during a phenomenon
known as dirty thunderstorms ash
particles rub against each other the
friction moving electrons from one to
the other leaving them with positive or
negative charges as the particles hurtle
off into separate positively and
negatively charged areas electricity
flows between them and lightning
crackles through the plume and there’s
the shocking truth number 2
bioluminescent waves these waves light
up with a bizarre inner glow and seem to
leave behind stars stranded on the sand
the eerie electric light is created by
phytoplankton that react to mechanical
disturbances in the water during the day
they spread in algal blooms that stain
the sea red known as the red tide but at
night their biochemical reactions like
the water neon blue emitting flashes
that researchers think are supposed to
scare off potential predators
perhaps by attracting bigger fish to eat
whatever’s eyeing them up the enemy of
my enemy is my friend
right before we unveil our number-one
pick
number one Aurora’s most of the time we
are happily oblivious to the solar wind
that constantly pummels Earth’s magnetic
field but when the dancing light of
Aurora’s fans out across the sky where
suddenly witnessed two powers much
bigger than us Aurora’s occur in Earth’s
northern and southern regions when the
solar wind hits the magnetosphere
sending charged particles towards the
poles on a collision course with oxygen
and nitrogen atoms in the upper
atmosphere for viewers below it’s as if
a cosmic curtain has parted and we’ve
glimpsed normally invisible forces at
work the lights seem otherworldly and
remind us how weird and wonderful our
you [Music]
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