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Watch: Lightning strikes the clock tower in Mecca, then it happens

August 7, 2022
Bharat Times

The video, shared on Friday, has garnered over 1.3 million views on Twitter.

New Delhi:

A video of lightning hitting a bell tower in Mecca, Saudi Arabia has gone viral on social media. In the video, lightning strikes on a rainy evening and then lights up the sky spectacularly.

A clip was shared online by a user named Mulham H, whose Twitter bio described him as a scholar of astronomy at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah. The translated caption reads: “A few days ago, during the rain in Mecca, there was a lightning strike at Burj Al-Sa.”

Watch the clip here:

The video, shared on Friday, has garnered over 1.3 million views on Twitter. Many Twitter users retweeted this and expressed their surprise at the beautiful sight.

One user commented, “The striking resemblance of lightning to a neuron fascinates me.”

For the past few days, parts of Saudi Arabia have been witnessing thunderstorms and torrential downpours.

Many parts of neighboring UAE are experiencing “its hottest weather in decades”, according to al Arabiya, According to the United Arab Emirates’ National Meteorological Center (NCM), in July it experienced its hottest weather in nearly 30 years. Experts have described the rain in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia as a result of the “less Indian monsoon” warning of more rain.

The video of Mecca has gone viral days after the lightning struck and pictures of Damage to a Tree in Ohio, USA caught the attention of the Internet. Thunderbolt burned the tree inside, giving The Ridgeville Township Volunteer Firefighter Department a difficult task. The tree had to be cut to get the fire under control.

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The dangerously beautiful natural phenomenon of lightning has always fascinated people. Earlier this year, a video of lightning falling overhead went viral on Twitter.

In the video, Bolt starts out on the ground and then moves toward the cloud, unlike traditional lightning strikes.

Upward lightning occurs primarily when there is a positive cloud-to-ground flash nearby.

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