Most thunderstorms are one-off weather events, born and gone within a few hours. Above a single stretch of wetland where a Venezuelan river empties into a lake, storms build almost every night of the ...

Discover Catatumbo Lightning, the spectacular natural phenomenon over Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo, and why travellers come to ...

The southern basin of Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo hosts one of the most persistent concentrations of lightning on Earth. Moist Caribbean air, nighttime winds and surrounding mountains repeatedly ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Lake Maracaibo experiences constant lightning that flashes from dusk until the break of dawn, but until recently, the caused was unknown. Researchers ...

In a remote part of northwestern Venezuela, there is a crack and flash of lightning most nights of the year. Storms are so frequent and so dense that the region has earned its own name: Relámpago del ...