Catatumbo Lightning
Catatumbo adalah nama suatu daerah di negara Venezuela. Di kawasan ini petir atau kilat sering terjadi berkali-kali bahkan tercatat hampir ribuan kali selama durasi satu jam. Cahayanya sangat terang dan tajam, bisa dilihat dari jarak lebih kurang 400 km, wuihh keren luar biasa yah. Dari fenomena alam inilah kemudian beberapa cerita atau dongeng muncul tentang kedahsyatan Catatumbo Lightning.
Dalam bahasa Inggris fenomena alam bisa dikategorikan kedalam teks bergenre Report. Berikut contoh teks report tentang fenomena alam Catatumbo.
Report
text (Natural phenomenon)
You the saying “lightning
never strikes the same place twice?” forget it. On a good night, one lake in
Venezuela hosts thousands of lightning strikes every hour.
The phenomenon is known
variously as the Beacon of Maracaibo, Catatumbo lightning or – cue dramatic
roll of thunder – the everlasting storm. That last one might be a slight
exaggeration but where the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo there is an
average of 260 storm days per year. Here the night sky is regularly illuminated
for nine hours with thousands of flashes of naturally produced electricity.
Venezuela’s lake
Maracaibo earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for “highest
concentration of lightning” with 250 lightning flashes per square kilometer
each year. The storm ease off in the dryer months of January and February and
are most spectacular at the peak of the wet season around October. At this time
of year, you can see average of 28 lightning flashes each minute.
The Catatumbo lightning
is bright enough that it can be seen 400 km (250 miles) away and colonial
sailors were said to use it for navigation. The force and duration of the
storms have inspired many tales but eyewitness claims the lightning is
multi-colored are a trick of the light.
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