The Eternal Lightning Storm That Has Burned For Centuries 🇻🇪⚡⛈️

Hinzugefügt: 2026-06-07

[00:00:00]At the mouth of the Catatumbo River in Northwestern Venezuela, lightning storms occur for up to 260 nights every year, producing up to 40,000 lightning strikes in a single night. This phenomenon, known as Catatumbo lightning, has been happening continuously for centuries and was so reliable that Spanish sailors used it to navigate at sea. Scientists believe a unique combination of warm Caribbean air, cold Andean winds, and methane from the swamps below creates an electrical storm that simply never fully stops. For hundreds of years, sailors called this stretch of Venezuelan sky the lighthouse of Merida. The sky above Venezuela has been on fire almost every night for centuries. National Geo Vision goes to the places where nature rewrites its own rules. Subscribe and witness Venezuela's eternal storm.