Weather of Arabia - Sinan Khalaf - As soon as the thunderstorms clear and the atmosphere returns to stability, we begin to touch an unusual purity in the outside air, as the rains that fall during thunderstorms work to filter the air and purify it from pollutants, such as dust and allergic pollen, which requires us to Addressing the role of thunderstorms in this process.
Lightning benefits
- The spark of lightning works, with the energy and heat it carries, to increase the amount of ozone in the air, by converting the oxygen in the air into ozone, and this explains the state of freshness that we feel when we go out after the occurrence of lightning.
- Also, lightning and lightning strikes, with the energy and heat they carry, can convert nitrogen into nitrogen dioxide by burning it, to merge with raindrops that fall on the soil as a valuable nitrogenous fertilizer.
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- Farmers notice an activity in the growth of plants after a day and two after the occurrence of lightning , which increases the emission of oxygen into the air, and the amount of nitrogen fertilizer that falls with the seeds of rain and which it produces is estimated at 400 million tons annually.
- The nitrogen fertilizer is important in the formation of the protein necessary for building living bodies, whether from a plant, human or animal, as it works to build the body's cells.
Despite these great benefits, it poses at the same time a great danger and a direct threat to nature and humans in some cases, the lightning strikes were a direct cause of igniting the forest fires that broke out in the US state of California days ago, and they may be fatal if they infect humans.
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