video | Faqaa penetrates the asphalt despite its thickness in Saudi Arabia

Weather of Arabia - Sinan Khalaf - A controversial video clip showed "Al-Faqqa'" sprouting under a layer of asphalt, which caused damage to the road, and the video's publisher did not specify the location of the scene.

Some users of the social networking site linked the event to the abundance and continuity of rainfall in the Kingdom during the current season.

Good year, God willing
And an ignorant person comes to tell you a year of drought pic.twitter.com/iIowZKLUOM

- Bariq Sudair (@bariq_Sudair) January 29, 2023

What is the relationship of cracks with rain?

After rain accompanied by lightning and thunder, as lightning increases the concentration of nitrogen oxide in the air to combine with raindrops that fall on the ground, sprouting types of mushrooms, including al-Faqqa, which is also called the “girl of thunder.”

The truffle or truffle is used as food, and the weight of one usually ranges from 30 to 300 grams, and it is considered one of the most delicious and valuable types of desert mushrooms. Its shape is spherical, fleshy, loose and regular, and its surface is smooth or tuberous.

It is available in black and white colors, and it has different sizes, and some of them may be small until they are the size of a grain