5种不可思议的天气现象 5 Creepy Weather Phenomena That Shouldn't Be Allowed

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Over the years, we've talked about some weird weather here on SciShowfrom red sprites to thundersnow to spider rain or murderous fogs.

But all that still hardly scratches the surface of how weird weather can get.

From blood rain to volcanic tornadoes, here are five more kinds of weird, wacky, wonderful and not-so-wonderful weather that happened right here on Earth.

Let's start with a couple ways rain can bedifferent from what we're used to.

In the Ancient Greek epic The Iliad, the god Zeus is said to have "showered bloody raindrops on the earth".

And whether that was meant literally or not, one thing is for sure: Sometimes, rain really is blood-red.

Appropriately, it's called blood rain.

This phenomenon happens all over the world.

And historically, some people thought it was real, actual blood falling from the skywhich would be terrifying, but fortunately it's not true.

Scientists have found that these rains are usually stained either by dust from deserts or microscopic algae that are suspended in the raindrops.

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