Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month.Become a Plus Member PUERTO CONCHA, Venezuela—Normally, there is just an hour between the sun going ...
The southern basin of Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo hosts one of the most persistent concentrations of lightning on Earth. Moist Caribbean air, nighttime winds and surrounding mountains repeatedly ...
The mouth of the Catatumbo River in Venezuela is almost constantly illuminated by lightning. The indigenous people referred to it as “River of Fire in the Sky.” It was recently awarded the record for ...
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Natural phenomena that almost no one has seen up close
Earth has some seriously wild natural phenomena that most people never get to see up close. Take the Catatumbo River in ...
In a remote part of northwestern Venezuela, there is a crack and flash of lightning most nights of the year. Storms are so frequent and so dense that the region has earned its own name: Relámpago del ...
Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela has been named a phenomenon by scientists. It’s the most electric place on earth – and pretty much puts to bed the saying that lightning never strikes the same place twice.
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