A new study has discovered that climate change may also be causing lightning to form in the Arctic, which has previously been linked to wildfires and hurricanes. According to climate scientists, an increase in the frequency and intensity of lightning in the high Arctic in 2021 is evidence of climate change's impact on global weather patterns. More lightning was observed in the North Pole in 2021 than at any other point on the planet, according to scientists.
Lightning strikes are loud and can easily be spotted. They are violent to the extent of shaking your bones and lighting up the sky. A new study proposes that these potent events can change the chemistry of Earth's atmosphere. And this could even affect Earth's crucial ozone layer.
The rising temperature remains a growing concern in the Arctic twice as much as the rest of the world. While that is known, it still stuns scientists how climate change can generate rare phenomenon.
A rare Arctic lightning storms north of Alaska which Ed Plumb, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Fairbanks, described as never seen before , even for forecasters.
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According to a weather report, three successive thunderstorms swept across the Arctic. Normally, the Arctic region do not have enough heat to form deep convective clouds to be able to create a lightning, but here we are.