5 Terrifying Natural Disasters You Do NOT Want to Experience

You know that hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes are to be avoided at all costs-but have you heard of blood rain, a black blizzard or a volcano tornado? It sounds too freaky to be true, but we promise... it is. Join us for wild episode of SciShow where we'll show you 5 scary weather phenomena that is downright spooky! Hosted by: Stefan Chin.
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[@zacharytaylor190]

As a pilot, I must mention microbursts, a recently discovered phenomenon wherein a large mass of air rushes downwards at more than 100 km/h. They can down passenger jets and was even seen to collapse a crane onto a nearby building.

[@teresaellis7062]

Dang, it is like nature's flyswatter. "Humans don't belong in the air!"

[@youkofoxy]

@@teresaellis7062 that is true, you need to put engine on "idle" when entering one and full power when exiting one. and jet engine take they time to slow down and speed up.

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

Shear winds can flatten a take off or landing.

[@essie23la]

one of those happened in my country this summer, on the edge of a small town causing part of the woods it bordered on to be completely flattened, 9 people injured and 6 houses destroyed (+more smaller damages). Considering the damage it can do on the ground, I can't imagine how scary that must be in the air!

[@seriousmaran9414]

Particularly dangerous around an airport. Planes landing or taking off can be pushed straight into the ground. I believe the effect can now be detected and avoided.

[@22Tidus]

I’m shocked you didn’t cover Purple Rain that originated in Minneapolis Minnesota June 25 1984 and quickly spread around the world over the last 30 plus years. It’s quite a phenomenon.

[@afunnyguyaye]

EnchanterTim well done sir.

[@theevildrummingsithlord1492]

This joke deserves a rimshot

[@FiendsLikeThese]

And the Great Chocolate Rain of 2007!

[@theevildrummingsithlord1492]

Kevin Carlow Never forget that!

[@dracofirex]

And the rain of men! Hallelujah!

[@jadehendrickson2718]

These all just so happen to be suitable band names as well.

[@addimantium6231]

i'm off to found "the wind anomalies from thermal convection"

[@taitjones6310]

Rain in Blood is a slayer sound. Except it's "Reign"

[@kantyran6449]

@@addimantium6231 i really don't care how good your band is. I just need a hoodie with that name on it

[@matthewcox7985]

I'm still looking for a heavy metal band called "Actinide Series..."

[@Tirryna]

Matthew Cox that needs to be a thing...seriously.

[@Azrage]

Volcanic Tornadoes? Almost good enough, but it needs more sharks.

[@MithrenIthilMI]

Volknado!

[@Nails077]

A tornado full of active volcanoes that erupt with magma sharks.

[@adamthebuilder172]

VOLSHARKNADO

[@nestormacnaught6]

OHHHH MY GAAAADDD

[@shingshongshamalama]

Sharknado Boy and Lava Girl.

[@Gardengallivant]

Dad experienced the dust bowl as a kid in Oklahoma. Hearing stories from parents are less complete but intensely personal.

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

My teacher in middle school had to run inside the farmhouse to escape a locust swarm in Saskatchewan Canada. She was 60+ years old in ‘77. So I knew a person who survived seeing a swarm in Canada. A prolonged drought followed by rain=swarm time...

[@meagain448]

Regarding the heat burst, I remember walking through our yard with my older brother one cool autumn night when we felt a sudden gust of very warm air. It was only one gust, and wasn't what is described as a heat burst, but it was certainly strange and to this day we've been trying to figured it out.

[@JosiahWendell-sr8vi]

I'm 3 years late, but I have to comments. I live in the midwestern US, and I have another contender for weird weather. There was lukewarm evening where you could feel pockets of warm and cool air swirling. these pockets had to be at least 8 degrees different, but it was a very still day and the pockets were not mixing like they usually would. Don't know why it happened, but it was odd. sounds similar to your situation.

[@user-xj8wy4uu1q]

Probably was a heat burst, just weak

[@gowzahr]

It would love to see Henry Higgins try to teach Eliza Doolittle say, "The blood rain in Spain is tinted by haematococcus pluvialis."

[@whistlingglasses8758]

😂😂😂

[@massimookissed1023]

*Volcadoes.* There. I said it.

[@faeriedragon348]

torcano

[@pranavlimaye]

VOLCNADO is so much better

[@pranavlimaye]

@Ned Stark too specific, sorry

[@pranavlimaye]

Screw all this. I'mma go with "Avocado"

[@sailingvesselchineel2253]

I was looking for this comment. Thanks :)

[@etherraichu]

2:00 Wait so you're telling me that people heard a really loud boom right before it started raining? Yeah I can't think of anything except a meteor that would do that. Its not like there's something incredibly common associated with rain that makes loud booms or anything.

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa790]

I mean there are lots of booms, but depending on what's in the populcae they might know what it was. A meteor boom would be unknown to almost anyone. A gunshot or machine equipment boom might be more well known.

[@gorkskoal9315]

It's almost as if that was loud as thunder. Why you call that a thunder cloud.

[@napatora]

it seems like it was obvious that it wasn't thunder because yeah people would recognize the sound of thunder

[@aarontoussaint8364]

@@napatora lighting and thunder isn't nearly as common outside of North America, Austria and parts of Africa as they are in those areas

[@kuroquettes3700]

@@aarontoussaint8364 I can assure you that thunder is common in India where the said loud boom was heard

[@hustlehank6855]

A storm is a perfect time to sneak away with valuable possessions - a creepy phenomenon of losing items

[@512TheWolf512]

Hustle Hank I swear, you're all the same person, the dank and the muscle and this one too

[@braindeadbogan9272]

What are you, 12?

[@luciferangelica]

@@512TheWolf512 not a chance! muscle hank is really funny

[@JustinY.]

If I saw a black blizzard, I swear I'd think the apocalypse was coming

[@Imilmano]

Justin Y. I'll reply to all your comments I find.

[@MatejB69]

Justin Y. Find life dude

[@SlenderScrub]

Justin Y. Woah why you gotta make it a black thing.

[@tox1800]

Justin Y. Your everywhere

[@occonnerwilderness8923]

It’s just the fire nation attacking

[@musclehank6067]

most of these occur when I flex too hard.

[@tiffyw92]

How about flexing away global warming while you're at it? Saves everyone a bunch, thanks.

[@fhhgfukjc8948]

Muscle Hank, I highly doubt that.

[@HTYM]

Muscle Hank Congrats!

[@ladyscarfaceangel4616]

Muscle Hank Or fart! 😂

[@musclehank6067]

+Chris Wilson what about them?

[@lodesmets9815]

Blood rain: Slayer is the cause. Not the algae

[@HTYM]

Lode Smets I heard it came from a lacerated sky.

[@_NoDrinkTheBleach]

Awaiting the hour of reprisal.

[@cyancyborg1477]

Seeing them live in three days.

[@sarahstannard4800]

Your time slips away

[@ridanann]

i do that drum beat every time im in a catholic church 🥁🥁🥁🎸

[@K_i_t_t_y84]

Wait........SPIDER RAIN?! THAT'S IT. I'M MOVING TO MARS.

[@thecommonfool2110]

Ya but mars has eLoN MuSk rAiN

[@vickymc9695]

Yer, but it only happens with tinny spiders, that can't harm you.

[@marios1861]

Megan Rivera there's rain that smells musky there

[@massimookissed1023]

Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Wierd and Gilly, And The Spiders from Mars. And as we all know, David Bowie is on his way to Mars right now.

[@AlexSDU]

Mars? What if they got Mars spider storm instead? I'm just gonna stay in space, orbiting Earth.

[@aquietdragon5671]

It sounds like the blood rain in Spain remains to be explained.

[@chrisforsyth8323]

It falls mainly on the plain...

[@josephshipman4656]

Mass disintegration mixed with a sandstorm?

[@Tirryna]

Joseph Shipman he was parodying a scene from "My Fair Lady,"

[@veleriphon]

It was interesting seeing the aftermath of the 2019 fires in California. Out here in the Midwest, the sky actually had a haze for a few weeks after.

[@icarusbinns3156]

And then 2020 happened. When those up in the ISS could see the smoke plumes. Oregon had smoke that reached all the way over to New York!

[@caitlinkeating8177]

The haze actually reached over to Pennsylvania and further

[@Vampwatch1462]

I remember one heat burst a few years ago on Christmas eve. It went from 20 degrees to 75 degrees. The windows fogged up quick and sweat came instantly. It was insane.

[@kelteckin]

Do you happen to live in the south ? Something like that once happened in Ms near Christmas time . Then a few years later we had tornados and a wall of cold it went from 70 to 20 in less than 5 minutes you could hear things creaking like metal roofs without any wind it's one of the weirdest weather related things I've ever seen.

[@biblicallyaccurateangel1378]

im just imagining blood rain with real blood and then vampires just run outside and dance like lmao

[@faeriedragon348]

insert obligatory singing in the rain reference here

[@TheMageOfVoid]

Skyfactory for vampires.

[@luciferangelica]

idk. i just keep thinking of that one ep of xavier renegade angel

[@Lalabaster]

I'm now thinking about Nicholas Cage running down the street screaming "I'm a vampire I'm a vampire"

[@JacquelineUnderwood]

They have this in Dance of the Vampire Bund

[@matteussilvestre8583]

"...at least we're sure it isn't aliens." Or that's what they *want* you to think...

[@micos3820]

Do you even remember an algae named _Trentepohlia annulata_ existing? I think NOT! Why? Well, obviously, because IT DIDN'T... until aliens planted it in out Oceans and our minds, at least.

[@otakunfranks8145]

They are actually spores used by the great Ant Hive-mind from various reasons. They can survive many situations and are used in panspermian expansion without risking higher resource dispersion systems. Helps to prepare for the arrival of more complex colonies, and given enough time can lead to colonies created by using local resources leading to hybrid-type populations. Here they can often help to rebalance some of the damage wrought by misguided and money-hungry apes, among other things. All hail the Hive!

[@sdfkjgh]

Otakun Franks: Previously on Brain Dead...

[@camcam2235]

Matteus Silvestre - scientists are the aliens!!

[@cg0825]

They heard a loud crash before the storm? Any chance that was THUNDER not aliens??

[@dankhank6948]

It really shouldn't be allowed to be over forty degrees out.

[@squirmtastic]

Dank Hank It shouldn't be allowed passed 30 honestly

[@snafuBMX420]

??? Celsius? I hope.

[@luciferangelica]

Brock Jones that's what i'm saying

[@snafuBMX420]

luciferangelica Pretty sure it is cuz 40c = 104f which is perfect for swimming. I'm odd though, I rather enjoy the heat, but I'm terrible with cold weather.

[@luciferangelica]

Brock Jones 👍

[@sifridbassoon]

I went through thunder snow a few years ago. It was very weird, but kinda cool. Heat bursts sound a little similar to blue northers. A large front with frigid temperatures comes charging south from Canada. Once it passes, the temperature can drop 20 to 30 degrees (F). You can tell when one is coming because the sky to the north gets a really dark blue/black color.

[@purplefire2834]

Tornado: who are you? Volcanic tornado: I'm you but stronger

[@saumyashah7978]

We will build a wall against the sky, and make the clouds pay for it!

[@luciferangelica]

epic!

[@Phil9874]

aren't they already paying for us.

[@xalthzdornier4805]

Read that on Trump's voice

[@goodtimes609]

And the clouds will not steal the wall 🤣😂

[@bearbryant3495]

I've never seen any of these phenomena, but I've witnessed some incredible drops in temperature. A good example is the Blizzard of '78, we were at a guys place playing cards and within a couple of hrs the temp dropped about 20 degrees and the rain turned to massive amts of snow with high winds behind it. It got really hairy, there was one point I wasn't sure I was going to make it to safety.

[@maximummaxx8688]

You’re wrong a massive dust storm just happened in South Dakota where I live because people keep cutting down trees and mismanaging the soil here.

[@MrWombatty]

Many of us humans will never learn from the past & sadly, it might well be death of this planet as we know it! B^(

[@D-Vinko]

That's nowhere near the same as a black blizzard. You aren't understanding the size of black blizzards, that's why you think they still happen. Black blizzards would travel OVER STATES. It would cover Oklahoma, New York, all of the east coast. I live in Arizona, I know all about dust storms, Haboobs were named here. Your dust storms, which don't compare to my dust storms, most certainly don't compare to black blizzards. Black blizzards do not happen anymore, and have not ever happened since the 30s. The last dust bowl in South Dakota was... guess when? 1936. The 30s. South Dakota hasn't had a drought that even compares to the dust bowl since 2006. According to weather.gov, South Dakota state summary doesn't indicate a major increase in dust storms over the last 5 years. Those storms you have don't compare to even a tenth of the power of those experienced over the great plains in the 30s. Here in Arizona, the air is so dry, rain will evaporate before hitting the ground; but the rain still moved the air it passed through, creating incredibly strong downdrafts which pick up hundreds of tons of sand from the desert floor; the sand storms form lots of static electricity due to friction; those dust storms are EVERY MONSOON; sometimes even without monsoon they pick up as the dry dust, but monsoon typically comes with dust storms first, then finally microbursts and rainstorms. Everyone in Arizona has Valley Fever, but we are mostly immune to it; its caused by the sand out here. It leaves a black mark on the inside of our lungs; we all have it because we all have lived through haboobs, dust devils, and dust storms which caused us to breathe valley fever in. I can even remember the exact moment I knew I caught valley fever, not because I had symptoms, but because I got caught in a raging haboob some 15 feet away from the front door of the house; I couldn't move or see, so I ducked my head to the ground and waited for it to pass. I certainly breathed in a lot of dust, and I'm certain that's about when I caught valley fever. On average, dust storms and haboobs are worse here than in any other region; and yet I would not say that the dust storms we experience are dust bowl levels. Our dust storms are just on average, worse than yours, and more common than yours; and yet, we aren't in a dust bowl, because that would be MANY MAGNITUDES worse. He wasn't wrong, you just don't have any perspective on the subject matter. Inb4; "this comment was 2 years ago". I mentioned a period of 5 years, don't worry I covered your timeline too.

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

Our smoke from BC reached Toronto. The California smoke reached NYC. Weather can be B I G. And I never thought of smoke as weather until I had to stay indoors a week due to Californian or Oregonian toxic smoke here in BC.

[@aliceullrish5251]

That’s not how that works bud 😂

[@kyrab7914]

@@D-Vinko K

[@Jukajobs]

there was some black rain in São Paulo, Brazil, somewhat recently, the ash from the Amazon fires got carried over a thousand miles southeast-ish and then came down with the rains, after turning the whole sky dark in the early afternoon. i'm fairly sure plenty of people freaked out about it, for pretty understandable reasons, even before knowing what had caused that

[@daerdevvyl4314]

In Manitoba around 2000, there was an act of vandalism when somebody set some flax bales on fire. The oil in the flax caused them to burn very hot. The intense heat created something resembling a tornado of flame. It pulled a man out of his truck to his death.

[@TheNightmareRider]

Raining blood From a lacerated sky Bleeding its horror Creating my structure Now I shall reign in blood! \m/ (Seriously, the first one on the list and not a SINGLE Slayer reference? For SHAME youtube comments!)

[@PeterKnagge]

"Last night my shadow went to heaven My body is here My soul in hell Last night I killed I can't remember Who I killed and why I loved Last night will never seem close to heaven Today I Woke To The Rain Of Blood"

[@taitjones6310]

Do the hosts of this show look like the type of people who listen to slayer? Show No Mercy

[@lachlanwelsh5880]

@@taitjones6310 meeeehhh... do Sci-show hosts listen to Slayer??? Most not I give you, but Hank maybe and the guy with the beard/Male pattern balding maybe. I do believe it is possible!!!!! Anyway, Hail Satan! (Satan of course being as real & effective as his nemesis JC, and her dad 🤪) Cheers, 👽

[@JosephFuller]

Heat bursts are awesome! But they can be scary sometimes. I remember a few nights, walking around the farm, the heat lightening was flashing everywhere, silently illuminating the night with flashes of blue-white light. Then a sudden warm wind full of energy flowed and ebbed across the fields. Its sudden warmth made me excited and made the simple experience of walking feel as though I were in the wind itself; dancing above the ground. The fireflies blinked from the forest, the leaves loudly rustled in the breeze; almost calling me to them, everything was at once mysterious and amazing, walking deeper into the flashing darkness surrounded by life, heat, wind and lightning.

[@MerkhVision]

That sounds like an incredible experience! Thank you for sharing that :)

[@LindaGailLamb.0808]

I live in Alberta, Canada... and I can remember the raindrops leaving dirty spots on cars and windows, sometime after Mount St. Helen's blew. That volcanic dust can really travel. I wonder if heat bursts, and the winds they can cause, could be as dangerous as other microbursts to planes taking off or landing.

[@VicInCommentSection]

This video would significantly benefit from having actual videos of the phenomenons.

[@CJBurkey]

"This weather is forbidden! Please halt, nature!"

[@frotwithdanger]

Ffs, how many hank-inspired names are there?

[@miguelare3]

Muscle hank dank hank hustle hank wank hank

[@chocolizard678]

@@miguelare3 and hunk green

[@ieuanhunt552]

Who the f is Hank?

[@Amateur0Visionary]

Too many. And none of them are funny or interesting.

[@luciferangelica]

all of 'em

[@feeberizer]

I'm distracted by how perfectly the plaid on your shirt matches up....

[@finanov6646]

0:18 Smog will now on will be known as "Murderous Fogs"

[@kaylac.5406]

Finanov and the Dust Bowl is now known as “black blizzards” apparently

[@JimFortune]

Did it fall mainly in the plain?

[@matteussilvestre8583]

Probably in Spain.

[@PopeGoliath]

The Blood Plains

[@YCCCm7]

The Blood Spains

[@davidamoritz]

Matteus Silvestre well played

[@dulcimerrafi]

Beat me to it.

[@hellfire439]

Damn nature, you scary

[@mickeyamf]

This narrator is so cute and precious keep this one

[@oucyan]

first volcanic lightning, now volcanic tornados? damn nature, you scary.

[@ponchoonchmoncho3691]

Weather is really such an amazing thing man. I mean, we're so insignificant in this universe when it comes right down to it. We're completely at the mercy of the planet and all of the changes and the processes of our planet. It's really truly amazing.

[@yourhope5410]

We once had hail larger than golf balls... luckily I was out of town but it destroyed my car

[@teresaellis7062]

Dang! Nature is scary sometimes!

[@squeaky2384]

To those ancient civilizations: bruh blood rain ain’t blood just taste some blood then taste the rain it ain’t that hard

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa790]

What if the lichen is toxic?

[@nedludd7622]

Australia regularly has giant dust storms. They are mostly in the Outback but can even reach Sydney. There are many videos on YT.

[@jhpratt]

Could you cover the insane storm in the early 1900s where temperatures dropped 60-70 degrees in 15 minutes in the central US? It set the record high and low for the day in Oklahoma City and elsewhere.

[@peteayars1454]

What about chocolate rain?

[@jacksongoerges9422]

Pete Ayars Some stay dry while others feel the pain

[@guapodesperado2822]

mmmm hot chocolate rain bursts.

[@KendraleeeMendoza]

Pete Ayars CHHHHHOOOOCOLATE RAIINNN

[@MrWombatty]

When you've accidentally fallen into a drop-toilet!

[@beepboopily6285]

Kendra's Vlogs A baby born will die before the sin.

[@MarkThePage]

I like the idea of telling weather it's just not allowed to do things. Hooray for strong environmental policies! (Also, has Josef Metesh edited many SciShow videos? Because the editing here is great.)

[@susanbarnes2628]

MarkThePage pop pop

[@aliceandLauren]

I really love that you guys have started adding “if you liked this go watch....” because it’s gotten a few of my friends to not not watch the video but be more likely from what I’ve noticed to watch that next video and reference it when we talk about the original video I sent them. 😅❤️

[@chronischtelaat]

"Ball lightning" is also a very interesting phenomenon. I could explain it to you right now, but I won't.

[@blaknoizee]

Me, being a Midwesterner, have experienced the awesome Heat Burst. It's awesome, but it does get a bit too windy once resolved.

[@MasterLagoz]

My favorite weather phenomena is the sky punch. Such a good name and awesome looking too.

[@betssylopez5895]

MasterLagoz what’s that

[@MasterLagoz]

Sky punch, aka Fallstreak hole is a weather phenomena where there is a hole in the clouds that looks like it was punched by giants.

[@sebastianelytron8450]

I'd make a funny comment but I'm under the weather

[@cup_check_official]

under the weather? Mayweather?...

[@joshiesam6362]

Sebastian Elytron XDDD 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jamescraig1792]

I'd slap you after the punchline if I could

[@jacobsoignier9742]

Feel better soon.

[@colonelstriker2519]

No

[@freedapeeple4049]

You see all kinds of weather on the prairies. I've seen temps rise by 20 or more degrees C in only a few hours (usually in the middle of winter!), but I've never seen a heat burst.

[@anonymousbub3410]

We had a mini heat burst in my backyard and the surrounding area right when a thunderstorm was flowing on and it got really hot at like 10:00 at night.

[@alexlandherr]

I don’t know weather this is fun or frightening or fascinating.

[@thecommonfool2110]

Was that a pun?

[@josephhoward4697]

I’ve experienced something like a heat burst after a strong thunderstorm in Arizona. Temperatures went from 60 to 40 over the course of an hour or so as the storm got going. Then the storm moved on and the temperature went back up. And even though the sun had set after it was over, the temperature shot back up to 55 after about 10 to 20 minutes.

[@dricer001]

sharknados are the worst though...

[@davidozab2753]

No. Sharknado vs. Megaoctocaine.

[@LindaGailLamb.0808]

Catnadoes !!

[@MariosPOS]

"shouldn't be allowed" hm

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa790]

@N C Maybe he didn't like the joke. The implication that humans control the weather.

[@yogosapphire]

I love how this title implies that we might have the power to allow certain types of weather and not others. 😂

[@Vampwatch1462]

I remember one Christmas eve I saw my window fog up with steam due to a heat burst. It went from 15 degrees to 75 degrees im one hour!

[@Lolibeth]

Acid rain was so common in 19th century London that gardening books had lists of plants that could tolerate it. It's still visible in the horticulture.

[@freedapeeple4049]

I'd like to see a video comparing the pollution effects/factors between coal, wood, oil, and natural gas. I believe the overall "dirtiness" of these is in the order I presented, but I'd like to see a bit of the science of it...

[@tristanhallett4793]

Weird weather: * exists * SciShow: "You weren't supposed to do that."

[@kme]

In my home town one year, there was a freak weather occurrence where in the space of not even a kilometre, we went from sunny weather to hail to rain and back to sunny. (some of us were out driving and went through this weird weather. It lasted all of about 2 minutes, if that.) And it was different weather in the 4 areas of the city. Not long after that, the first of many yearly storms hit with huge hailstones that cost several millions of CDN dollars worth of damage. Since then, the storms have progressively gotten worse. (but I don't live there anymore)

[@MusicalBotany]

My hometown experienced a heat burst several years ago. Ambient temperatures rose so highly and so quickly that it was uncomfortable to touch the interior knobs of exterior doors.

[@williamoldaker5348]

"Shouldn't be allowed" is a bit of a stretch, ya think?

[@thethegreenmachine]

Not for the human caused ones on the list.

[@bigmike9128]

Just call the weather police

[@JooJingleTHISISLEGIT]

bam! it's the weather police, we enforce the weather rules. who's been shootin' up the sky with that black tar? we'll take you downtown and leave ya in a cell to rot.

[@williamoldaker5348]

thethegreenmachine I agree there.

[@williamoldaker5348]

Joo Jingle probably should just kill them.

[@klorenka]

Don't worry, the devs are going to fix it on the next patch

[@mads4it555]

I love finding out weird & cool information like this, thanks SciShow!

[@philpaine3068]

I've seen a sandstorm in the Sahara. Utterly terrifying. But if you want real wacky weather (heat waves and snowstorms on the same day) try Alberta, with its "Chinook winds".

[@my_name_is_betty283]

Black Blizzards, blood rain, and volcano tornados? Sounds like a normal day in Kansas

[@yvonnescott3107]

Or Oklahoma

[@gamergirl209]

I had a switch a few years ago that meant I was doing a lot of driving between 11pm and 2 am. I never saw as much lightning as I did during those hours. No rain no thunder, just tons of lighting arcing across the sky. Any ideas?

[@Krystalmyth]

"Should not be allowed." The sheer hubris of this just blows me away, scishow.

[@kari-gs4eq]

When I was a kid I remember the news reporting about a very rare weather thing that had occurred the night before, I think it probably was a heat burst. Thank you.

[@rgbii2]

I was hoping they'd talk about the recent freezing rain associated with a volcano. Pretty strange stuff.

[@russcrawford3310]

Thank you ... tornadoes are required to have a condensation cloud by definition ... the weirdest weather I've ever seen was just before totality of the 1979 Pacific Northwest Solar Eclipse ... a fog bank was rolling up the Columbia River Gorge about 3 minutes in front of the umbra ... very much un-Earthly in appearance ...

[@felixrivera895]

My favorite are microbursts. Beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky. You sit down to read a book, and the sun gets blotted out by a black storm cloud that basically manifested from nowhere on top of you, driving harsh rain, hail, and winds into your area. You take cover inside, only to realize the storm is over. It's bs. So what if the sudden increase in tempurature comepared to the day before caused a Ton of water to vaporize all at once. I was Enjoying my day and now it's humid and gross.

[@SlyPearTree]

That makes me want to make my own "weather station" to record the temperature outside my home and flag any abnormally rapid change. I think I have everything I need for a summer one, one that would work below 0 is trickier. I'm in an apartment so I cannot simply drill holes to pass wires so only passive sensors are outside.

[@GameOverAus]

Those mega dust storms happen in Australia almost every year.

[@GameOverAus]

Never had those in Adelaide, Sth Australia thank god :P we've just had sideways tornado's, those massive dust storms and horrendous bush fires oh and drop bears haha, when i bent down i had one climb on my back lol

[@MrWombatty]

On Feb 8 1983 Melbourne was hit by a massive dust storm which they estimated to have dumped 1,000 tonnes on the city & suburbs. It was also extremely hot reaching 43.2 deg C (109.8 deg F) mid afternoon, but the worse was to come with similar high temperatures the following week combining with the extreme drought conditions causing the devastating Ash-Wednesday bush fires! B^(

[@GameOverAus]

Yup i was 10 then and witnessed the bushfires in the Adelaide Hills first hand, i lived just 5 mins from them and the flames reached a few suburbs away where my father ended up living., we were at a restaurant one of the nights and all the power went out and the sky was light with red/orange, very scary. we've had a few of those dust storms in Adelaide the past 5yrs but not as bad as the one you described.

[@Beryllahawk]

Volcanic vortices then. Nice and alliterative.

[@rmdodsonbills]

Heat bursts reminded me of a different phenomenon, temperature fluctuations due to chinook winds. As they blow down the sides of mountains, as they lose altitude they gain temperature. They are credited with the world record temperature increase of 49 degrees F (-4 to +45) in Spearfish, SD in 1943.

[@doreenachtymichuk7909]

OMG !!! just found you 2 days ago. you are now my favorite !! you guys ROCK science !!

[@greyduck4965]

"Otherworldly weather... on some of the exoplanets" Well if it's on an exoplanet, won't it always be other worldly?

[@creature_skin]

Honestly the planet can throw whatever weird weather it wants my way, as long as it's not going to hurt me

[@evilotto9200]

Calling it quits at Spider Rain myself

[@kurthisroyalfattness9182]

It's going to hurt you

[@mar2d258]

most of it wants to hurt you. 9r at the very least test your mettle.

[@cl4ud1us43]

More than 10 years ago a heat burst happened. This was the weirdest thing ever, it happened at night at 11 pm and felt like I just opened an oven door in my face. We looked at each other and started laughing

[@teresaellis7062]

Woah. Wild!

[@jauxro]

The sky is so scary but everyone just has to ignore how terrifying it is most of the time

[@easymac79]

6:04 Candle, super fine dust... I see an explosion.

[@Will-be-free]

Sand mostly consists of already oxidized material, so there wouldn't be much left to burn.

[@musicalcacti]

The rain in Spain falls mostly in my... veins?

[@Gew219]

Finally, a SciShow epusode about the best game (and movie) series BloodRayne.

[@kimberlywilliams7567]

Welcome to Wisconsin. We had six feet of snow drop at the end of April, and was up to 80 degrees in may. It’s really confusing to be wearing shorts and see piles of snow everywhere.

[@vitormelomedeiros]

It is kind of gloomily poetic, isn't it? Putrifying black rain falling from the sky after Armageddon descended into the city, destroying everything nearby, the black angels of death spreading their wings to block the sunlight. War never changes.

[@matteussilvestre8583]

That'd be so metal.

[@merrymachiavelli2041]

Well...er...it does. A lot. Not to burst your admittedly poetic bubble, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the first time nuclear weapons had been used in a conflict (i.e. they were a change.). And even without that, war changed a lot in the 20th century, going from interstate conflict, to civil wars, with less in general (surprisingly few countries are actually a war with one another nowadays). And if you are just talking about types of devastation, that has also changed (go back 50 years from 1945, and powered flight wasn't even a thing yet, let alone aerial bombings). Sorry to nitpick. Couldn't help it.

[@vitormelomedeiros]

Merry Machiavelli HAHAHAHAH I actually loved your comment!! I was just referencing the Fallout game series. But it does make a lot of sense.

[@IrritatedBear]

Vítor Medeiros tips fedora

[@diglis1033]

COUNTRY ROADS, TAKE ME HOME!

[@julesyates5027]

8:27 “pulled a sneaky on ya”

[@tjbrotherton6755]

cool

[@koharumi1]

In Australia we get heat bursts as well as mega fires. Reached over 11 million hectares

[@Zeldon567]

Heat burst in Minnesota Saturday, June 16th 2018. I pushed carts for 8 hours through that and it was literally hell on earth.

[@warhawkjah]

#1 = Slayer

[@fep_ptcp883]

4:37 i can hear Darude - Sandstorm

[@Articulate99]

Always interesting, thank you.

[@dannahbanana11235]

Ah, I was wondering why the heat burst thing was weird to some people. But I was born and raised in the Midwest lol. We also have tons of alligator gar, which are apparently rare elsewhere 🤔

[@skbartistry2473]

You should've given Denmark a go too. Our yearly weather is weird enough to always surprise us and make us go "wtf?" I'm 22 and born here and I still do it. Take this year so far, as an example. Our winter was as warm as late spring. Then once we hit Mars, we got one blizzard after the other. The snow came and melted away about 4-5 times over a single month. Two weeks into April and it's 25 degrees celcius. This continues pretty much through May all the way till June the 10th, cause today (June the 11th) it's been around 9 degrees all day and will continue to do so for a while. Hopefully it gets warm again, but being a Dane, I wont bet on it. Literally anything can happen. Living here means getting up in the morning, preparing yourself for everything, since the day can literally start out being 22 degrees celcius and then suddenly drop to around 10 degrees in a matter of 20-30 minutes. And then it still might only be in that particular area. Sometimes you can travel a mere 40 km from the area and the weather will be entirely different. Other (though much rarer) times, you can travel to the other end of the city and the weather will be different. At the last instance here, we're talking everything from 10 km down to just 2. Denmark deserves to be on this list. We dont have a single weird or creepy weather phenomena. Our entire seasons are packed with them

[@LindaGailLamb.0808]

😂😂😂 Sounds kinda like here in Alberta, Canada, sometimes.

[@peytonelizabeth9191]

Sounds like kentucky

[@benoncle1468]

What's up with the Hank profiles, is it the same guy or did several persons decide to use Hank material in their avatar and pseudonyms? x)

[@zombieblood1675]

Ben Oncle memes inspire more memes

[@Raymonkey77]

I'm suprised you didn't mention a microburst. They happen here in Oklahoma. One hit downtown Ponca City and it did a million dollars worth of property damage and 3 people were injured by debris.

[@frogstereighteeng5499]

We get chinooks here in Alberta, basically a bunch of hot air comes and melts all of our snow throughout the winter :/