Arab Weather - Sinan Khalaf - a phenomenon that may appear at first glance to be ambiguous and out of the ordinary, it occurred with a Saudi youth during his documentation of thunderstorms on the coast of Al-Wajh in the Tabuk region during the effect of the rainy tender, where the young man published a video clip documenting a luminous glow similar to a blue fiery flame coming out Finger in search of an explanation for what happened
Peace and mercy of God
Someone guys have an explanation for this clip that happened to us on Thursday night at Al-Wajh Beach pic.twitter.com/D6433U1A6h
- Salman Al-Saadi (@ h88d99) February 7, 2021
A professor of climate in the geography department at Al-Qassim University, Abdullah Al-Misnad, explained this phenomenon through a series of tweets on his Twitter account, saying: “It is a plasma and not a jin ... if you are in the open, and thunderstorms are above you, and you see an electric glow on your fingertips as in the clip Elbow, or pulling your hair up, so know that you are in the dangerous place.
And he continued: "Directly get rid of your watch, your keys, your cell phone and every metal you carry, and get into your car. It is safe for you in the event of a lightning strike, and directly change your location, and move away from heights, trees or columns."
He added: “What happened in the previous section is a manifestation of atmospheric electricity, which usually appears simultaneously with the end of severe thunderstorms, and occurs rarely, as you charge the surface of the earth with electricity, and it is discharged into the human body, or animal, or sharp peaks, In the form of a blue or purple glow, it is not a burning fire, but a luminous plasma (ionized gas). It sounds like a chandelier lamp, and this glow also appears on the edges of the plane in the sky sometimes.
He concluded by saying: “This is a climatic and visual phenomenon that has been observed by man since ancient times and attributed to the jinn. "God knows".
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