Rain of blood or red rain. It can happen

Nature and its mysteries bring us impressive natural phenomena, among them it has been possible to witness the Rain of blood or red rain, but what is it ? What does it rain that looks like vital fluid? We tell you everything!

Rain of blood: What is it about?

The first thing you should know is that the rain of blood is a term used for rain that carries desert sand, not blood. Punctually, it moves the fine particles of desert sand that are whipped by the winds, mixed with the moisture in the clouds and that is why when the rain falls it seems a reddish color and when it dries, it leaves a thin layer of dust that can also be red like blood.This material is capable of covering houses, cars and garden furniture.

The example more Recent of this phenomenon called blood rain happened in 2001, when a red shower fell on the Indian state of Kerala. On this occasion the red rain began to fall and did it intermittently for several weeks.or was strong enough to stain clothes.There were also reports of green, yellow, brown and black rains.After much speculation and when scientific researchers were able to study the phenomenon, it was shown that in this case-unlike the one It contains desert sand-a red algal bloom was responsible for the crimson precipitation.

The storms in the Sahara desert, which is about 2,000km away, are usually responsible for stirring dust blown to the United Kingdom, for example.This type of "blood shower" occurs, to a lesser or greater degree, a few times a year in the United Kingdom, according to experts.

It is more common to happen in southern Europe, in places like Spain and southern France, because they are closer to the Sahara. But you can travel longer distances and fall into such areas distant as the Scandinavian Peninsula.

There are records of "rain of blood" in historical texts.Previously, there was a belief that the red rain was really composed of blood and was considered a bad omen. It was often used in texts and literature to predict bad For example, it is mentioned in Homer's Iliad, which is said to have been written around the 8th century BC The 12th-century writer Geoffrey de Monmouth, who made King Arthur's legends popular, also referred to the red rain, as well as the 12th century historian, William of Newburgh.

Did you know the phenomenon of the red rain? Although today we know the scientific explanations about it, in the past, witnessing an event like this should be extremely impressive.

Have you been able to see with your own eyes the "rain of blood"? Maybe some weird rain? Tell us about your experience!

If you want to know more about rain-related phenomena, you may also be interested in:

The 8 rarest rains in the world !

Images: Printeboek; Giuliamar

Comments

Colorblindness | 10 Curiosities you may not know

Surely throughout your life you have heard about color blindness and you may even know someone who suffers from it.Color blindness «is an alteration of genetic origin that affects the ability to distinguish colors».how it can affect the person is very variable and goes from the impossibility of distinguishing any color to a slight difficulty to distinguish shades of green or red .Although socially it is not considered an important alteration, if it is for the one that is affected since in many occasions it supposes a problem in the daily life. Join us to know more about the Colorblindness with these 10 Curiosities that perhaps you do not know . The name of Daltonism comes from the English naturalist, meteorologist, chemist and mathematician John Dalton who was the first to identify it.In 1794 he presented a work entitled "Extraordinary facts related to the vision of colors" .the cause, He made a great description of this visual deficiency that he himself suffered. 10 ...

Does it threaten a megatsunami?

A long, long time ago, 73,000 years to be exact, the eastern face of a volcano collapsed in Cape Verde.This caused a wave of gigantic proportions, which rose to 170 meters high and then crashed with enormous force in a nearby island. This megatsunami , as it was baptized in the journal Science Advances , is the largest one with a geological record. They say it can happen again This is stated by Ricardo Ramalho , a geophysicist at the University of Bristol, although he clarifies that it cannot be known exactly when or where. The problem is the young oceanic volcanoes-such as those found in the Canary Islands or the Azores, or Hawaii-that have very high altitudes and steep walls; the scientist believes that the potential disaster is there, if it happens again with certainty it will originate in these volcanoes. The flanks of some of the oceanic volcanoes collapse periodically, causing huge amounts of rock they slide down and the water moves below; This is how tsunamis f...

The sun shield that some scientists want to build

Faced with the imminent threat of solar flares that could seriously affect life on Earth, a group of scientists has proposed a novel form of protection: a gigantic sun shield .. With a sun shield we could protect the Earth from the king star, according to scientists Human activity in the 21st century increasingly depends on the infrastructure located in the orbit Low Terrestrial (LEO), that is, the many telecommunications satellites currently in space, the International Space Station and the GPS satellite fleet. For this reason, the solar flares have begun to be considered a serious danger to human life, because if this infrastructure is destroyed we would be left without the tools that make our comfortable existence on the planet possible. To treat this threat a team of scientists from Harv University ard recently published a study that proposes a bold solution: put a giant magnetic shield in orbit. The study, which was the work of Manasavi Lingam and Abraham Loeb of...

Bears addicted to jet fuel | Our impact on Earth

Our planet is full of curiosities and almost all the species that live in it, too.Our Science Daily Online team knows it well and articles like «50 rare animals of the world.Fascinating and curious» is a good example of what you we say.In the case of the following article the protagonists are bears, but not just any bears or those super endearing we see in any National Geographic documentary.The bears that we are going to talk about next are some bears addicts .Addicts to the fuel of an airplane.Incredible, right? What do we know about these addicted bears? These curious and strange bears are in the Reserve Natural Kronotsky, in the extreme east of Russia.These are brown bears who love to suck kerosene and gasoline from the containers qu e remain in this reserve .It is believed that they are the largest brown bears in the world, weighing more than 500 kilos. This fuel that these addicted bears breathe is the one used to generate energy in the generators and helicopters used ...

Incredible pregnancy cases (II)

We saw a few curious cases of pregnancy in the first installment of this article, surely they did not leave you indifferent.Now we return again with three surprising cases of atypical pregnancies that, however incredible they may seem, are real. Incredible pregnancy cases-Part II We begin with the smallest mother in the world, Stacey Herald, a brave woman with a height of just 60 cm who despite the warnings of the doctors who told her that she could die trying, she decided to give birth.She then became the smallest mother in the world.Together with her husband Will who is 1.80 cm, they already have three children.Despite repeated warnings from the specialists who gave them advised not to have any more children, Stacey and Will consider these to be a blessing and do not regret having them. We continue with the c aso of Mahajabeen Sheikh, this woman gave birth to the smallest baby in the world that has survived.She was pregnant with twins, Rumaisa weighing only 243 grams at birt...

10 curious things that can happen to you while you sleep

The human being spends about a third of his life sleeping and during all this time it is normal for curious and even strange things to happen to us, the problem is that we usually do not realize them.Fortunately Scientists who study sleep and all the effects it has on our body. There are hundreds of sleep-related disorders but in this article we want to comment on some of the most curious things that can usually happen to a person while sleeping without becoming a problem, surely you will be surprised with more than one.Has any of these situations ever happened to you? 10 curious things that occur to us while we sleep 1.Spam full length Normally when we suffer these spasms we realize Even when you are half-asleep, but if you sleep with a person who suffers from them you will surely have taken more than one scare.According to studies on this subject up to 70% of people usually "suffer" it. Stress, caffeine or anxiety are potentiators of this effect, although i...

And you, also "procrastins"?

And you? Procrastines too? If you don't, we are sure that you know someone who does it continuously and that, surely, makes you despair.But what does this disturbing word really mean? Let's give an example: you have been dating a person for a long time, you make plans for the future, you have many illusions and projects, however, your partner never seems to decide.He is unable to formalize your relationship because something like that, not only overwhelms him, but even He is lazy. "Are we not well like that?" I often reproach you. Let's give another example: you may have the classic friend who never seems to finish his studies.It is easy to be an "eternal" university student who faces the responsibilities and anxieties of the working world. And what about people who spend all their time in front of a computer screen letting out "real life" ? Sometimes, it is much easier to let ourselves go, evading responsibilities, than to put means t...

The mystery of prehistoric giant mushrooms

Imagine a primitive scenario , halfway between fantasy and mystery.It is a time where Earth has only two continents: Euramerica , to the north, and Gondwana , to the south.Imagine now that you are walking on a soil almost devoid of vegetation, there are hardly any plants, and your steps explode in the thicket of a rocky stage, where they stand... The authentic giants of the Earth: the prototaxites.These giant mushrooms were like strange mastiffs that could reach almost 8 meters.The higher the height, the greater the possibility of escaping their spores, and hence their sovereignty In these scenarios of Silurico and Devonico , almost 420 million years ago... But, what were they? Trees, bushes? ...The prototaxites were fungi.If you have felt a chill or have been stung by curiosity, do not hesitate to know more about these creatures worthy of appearing in the "Lost World" of Jules Verne. The era in which the Prototaxites, giant fungi, dominated the Earth Scientist...

Why does our nose bleed?

In Science Daily Online we talk once about the whirlpools that we have some in the hair.In this occasion, we want to talk about something related to our anatomy that is also very common, but appalling and that can occur at any time: nosebleed or epistaxis . Does your nose bleed? Surely you have had many Sometimes, or you know someone who has had their nose bleed for some time in their life, it is very frequent and common due to the situation of the nose (in the middle of the face) and the amount of blood vessels that it contains, which are very fragile and can break. It is a« incident »quite shocking , which can lead to scare the sufferer and/o presence.However, in most cases it is easy to solve .Important: you should avoid swallowing the blood, as it can cause vomiting and complicate the situation. The fact of bleeding from the nose is more common in children between 2 and 10 years and between adults between 50 and 80 years. Did you know that there are two typ...

6 ocean mysteries hidden underwater

Without a doubt, one of the most intriguing places in the world is the ocean.It is so large and deep and has so many interesting things to discover underwater, where the human being is not able to reach by his own means and needs the help of technology to discover the mysteries of the ocean. 6 mysteries of the ocean hidden underwater 1.Most of the ocean remains unexplored Marine biologists use satellites, radars and math to map the percentage of how much the ocean has explored, however, marine biologist John Copley believes that less than 5% of the entire ocean This is what has been explored in reality.Even when they try to look for shipwrecks or airplanes that have fallen into the water, they barely travel less than 1%. Many years can go by and they spend a lot of money, and not all of them are still known exactly mysteries that hides . 2.Atlantis: Reality or fiction? At least sometime in our lives we have heard about Atlantis, the lost city.Some theories say that it ...

Science Daily Online

Search This Blog