Strange Weather

3 Whack Weather Phenomena



Hank describes three of the whackest weather phenomena on Earth: atmospheric rivers, fire tornadoes, and ball lightning. Super interesting and super weird.

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31 comments

Gulam Ahmed May 7, 2017 at 9:08 pm

i saw the third weather phenomena , a lighting ball went in side my aunts house during rain and we all thought is was jinn or spirit .

FlyAVersatran May 27, 2017 at 7:27 am

We had ball lightning in our family's house in CO when we were kids. There was a BIG "regular" strike just outside the house and a glowing light-gold "fuzz ball" came down the stove exhaust vent. It fell to the edge of the stove and broke in half when it touched the range.

The two halves both exhibited Brownian motion. One went away when it touched the table leg, the other when it touched the nose of our curious dog (with no reaction).

Both our next door neighbors had very similar things happen through their exhaust vents as well at the same time.

Ramen GP June 10, 2017 at 7:19 pm

I make several balls of lightning when I'm on the crapper.

Deluxe Edition June 25, 2017 at 6:16 am

lmfao get fucked west coast

NeilIsBored2 September 27, 2017 at 10:34 am

If anything, california reeeally needs another one of those rivers right now.

Oughtism October 3, 2017 at 1:48 pm

Sunny, Windy, Cloudy, and Rainy at the same time?
Yup, Hank's definitely lived in Florida.

Rodger Brown October 10, 2017 at 4:13 pm

As i was watching this (on a rainy day to) the local emergency management decided to test the tornado sirens

Alex Lubbers December 2, 2017 at 8:33 pm

forget fire tornadoes, have you ever heard of LUMINOUS tornadoes?

they are a mysterious blue or orange glow that has been reported during violent late night tornadoes, and the reports describe the funnel glowing with an electric blue light. One account described the funnel like a layered neon tube, with a bright blue glow around the outer part with a brilliant orange light in the center, which would gush out when the tornado would lean to the side. Go look it up, its pretty crazy

Sweet Hater December 14, 2017 at 1:29 am

Georg Richmann sounded like Gaylord Richmann which would the greatest name ever.

Justin Letchford December 16, 2017 at 1:15 am

picks up coke can
"What's this bra?"
"It's a can bra"

THAT's how you pronounce Canberra.

Roy F-W January 23, 2018 at 2:55 pm

I remember the fire storm in Canberra. The scariest part about the whole thing was seeing both my parents looking visibly worried.

Crazy Cruzito January 24, 2018 at 11:15 pm

Hail In Southern California

everett potter March 20, 2018 at 2:48 am

hank is awesome we must continue to support scishow i've learned so much from there videos Thanks SciShow

YoYoWolf June 16, 2018 at 5:21 pm

Show sure has changed over the years lol

Roozbeh kasila October 25, 2018 at 6:52 am

LIGHTNING BOLT!

Rock Holiday March 22, 2019 at 11:31 am

Whack?To strike.3 to throw a blow weather phenomena doesn't make sense.Man u gotz sum wedder dat b cray cray.Is that where this is going?

Nyckel March 29, 2019 at 7:44 pm

Both my grandparents has witnessed ball lightning. Pretty sure it's almost impossible to photograph. You can't predict it and it's over in a flash.

Asrat Mengesha April 16, 2019 at 5:10 pm

The clouds tell you , hey you humans and animals it is going to rain…..How ever clouds are not rain source but the can tell you how much rain is going to fsll.

Snails and Tires June 10, 2019 at 2:01 pm

I saw ball lightning once in my room. It was a reddish white ball of bright plasma the size of a raisin. It phased through my table like it was nothing and continued to drop to the leg off the table. When it touched the leg it suddenly came out to the very bottom of the leg to the floor as a faint red spark with audible crackle.

Nc313 , June 16, 2019 at 4:42 pm

Crazy how 2019 had the worst flood in history in the Midwest and southern United States. The ar runnith over.

brandadyanne June 27, 2019 at 7:43 pm

Er ma gerd. I love you so much. And for all the haters. Just appreciate the wealth of knowledge he passes along.

Howard Delovitch June 30, 2019 at 10:35 am

Define "Whack" in scientific terms….SciShowman.

ヴァネッサVanessa July 5, 2019 at 1:15 am

I don't think anyone cares about how it's pronounced, the man's doing his job.

Existenceisillusion July 9, 2019 at 8:30 am

Now we just need to combine 1, 2, and 3 together with sharks and laser beams!

Antoinette Rae Mareno July 27, 2019 at 9:40 pm

Ball Lightning is real! I saw it once! I seriously thought they were UFOs. Three of them in the sky just sitting there for a few minutes then they got closer and closer slowly and then zoomed away. I seriously thought it was the end – until i learned about ball lightning.

Fluorcyl September 4, 2019 at 10:57 pm

""I'm talkin' like nut bar."" LOL Oh Hank!

Ball lightning… it's a thing! I saw it once — one time only in my life. It was about the size of a golf ball and it was just floating about three or four feet off the ground. It moved very slowly through the air, and it hit our metal fence, and the minute it hit the fence it disappeared.

Josée Lanue September 21, 2019 at 2:19 am

lol, you were even cuter in 2013. Just how old were you?

Ja-Nai Hibbs January 24, 2020 at 10:03 pm

Umm the peshtigo. Fire that happened on the same day as the great Chicago Fire was far worse

J T May 16, 2020 at 10:23 pm

This comment is for you grammer complainers. Its not Australia where he's at. Tomato, tomato

Paige Larrabee April 1, 2021 at 12:09 am

can you explain why sometimes when it rains my car ends up dirty? like it rained dirt or dust? It is very strange

HeyNonyNonymous April 9, 2021 at 5:08 am

Hank: al things are energy
Me, laying on the couch, in need to pee: No.

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