1) Aurora Borealis.
The Aurora Borealis is one of the most wickedly cool and naturally beautiful things in the world. Another name for it is "The Northern Lights". This awesome light fest occurs when the sun gives off super-highly charged particles called ions. These ions are blasted at up to 1200 kilometers per second. A bunch of ion particles all fired at once form a cloud of plasma. The stream of plasma coming from the sun is called Solar Wind. When the particles get trapped in Earth's atmosphere, they start to collide with different gases. The result is beautiful.
2) Supercells
Supercells are one of the scariest things to see. Ever. In my opinion. Supercells are continuously rotating updrafts usually located within the bowels of a severe thunderstorm. They are extremely scary looking and usually produce severe wind, hail and tornados. Also, they are usually isolated in the thunderstorm, which means they are very photogenic, and several amazing pictures have been taken of them. Finally, they are known to last for hours, even splitting up and traveling in different directions, usually wreaking havoc on whatever is in their path.
3) Fire Tornados
Fire Tornados, AKA Fire Whirls, are possibly the most epic thing God ever created. Whirling tornados. Of fire. That's just awesome. Fire Whirls are formed when a warm updraft and a convergence from a wild fire meet. The most deadly fire tornado in recorded history occured in 1923, when a city sized fire storm produced a gigantic fire whirl, which killed over 38,000 people in less than 15 minutes.
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