A rare phenomenon of frozen lightning, when, opening the sky, they hang in their frightening beauty, is characteristic of the northern latitudes of our planet.
Academic science stubbornly refuses to recognize it, attributing it to other natural phenomena, far from the discharges of atmospheric electricity.
FIRES OVER A DEAD IRON
Such lightning strikes only in frosts, when there can be no talk of rains accompanying linear or ball lightning.
Demonstrate their scenic power of lightning in sparsely populated areas, usually to individuals or small groups of people. To find the truth, let us turn to the testimonies of eyewitnesses - Russians and Icelanders.
In the Far North, in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, in the thirties of the last century, the mining of rare earth metals was launched. The extraction of raw materials for the defense industry increased rapidly. For transportation, railway lines were laid, closing as the mines were depleted.
One such segment from Salekhard to Igarka, laid according to a temporary scheme, was put into operation in 1953. For a test, a steam locomotive with three carriages passed along it, where members of the selection committee and railway engineers were traveling. The planned intensive operation was postponed due to the fact that the production was not economically viable. Since the geologists continued their exploration and guaranteed sufficient ore yield in the future, they decided to preserve and maintain the routes in working order, for which technicians were housed in a stone station building next to the pump station. The brigades were given motorized railcars and a platform with a lift.
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These people became unwitting observers of frozen lightning. In the radio messages sent by the senior caretaker ID Strukov, he described "fires" over a dead piece of iron.
The dead "piece of iron" was called because when the branch was laid, they suffered truly front-line losses. There was neither time nor opportunity to dig graves in the permafrost. The dead were simply sprinkled with rubble. As Ivan Strukov recalled thirty years later, the inspection of an abandoned road was “a sheer heartache, because the rubble that was being saved was quickly crumbled here and there, revealing the remains of those with whom he once worked, whom he once knew.
This is just the flip side of a completely different life that people lived in the northern rear during the war. A life about which it is better not to know anything."
But back to our lightning, which I. D, Strukov from 1953 to 1960 counted eighteen, making a collective portrait of the phenomenon.
"Heavenly cinema", as the former senior superintendent called the natural phenomenon, was never turned on either before the war or during it.
The first "session", striking with a riot of colors and a variety of sound effects, began at 19:47 on January 12, 1953. The "session" was repeated on January 25, 1960. It all happened at noon against the backdrop of thick clouds that completely covered the sun. It was necessary to give orders, and Strukov was distracted by official business.
The shouts of the workers returned him to the contemplation of the sky: "Thunderstorm, thunderstorm over the forest!" The thunderstorm was indeed raging serious. Lightning, then black, then green, then blue, streaked across the sky. Peals of thunder tore at the eardrums. And then, at an air temperature of at least minus 30 degrees Celsius, the lightning suddenly "froze", and for 15-20 minutes they could be viewed in detail. Further snow fell, "smelling strongly of ozone." Remembering the frozen lightning, the former senior caretaker drew attention to the fact that after the outlandish natural phenomenon calmed down, people, having passed the shift, fell into hibernation. The restless sleep lasted a day, two, three. Ivan Strukov grieved: “The mortality rate after the icy thunderstorms increased sharply. I don't know how connected it is, but in January 1956 there were six people in a small detachment! And this despite the fact that they were fed for slaughter,regularly conducted medical examinations. Guys from the mainland were recruited on the basis of physical endurance and ideal health. " Asking the question what it was, Strukov noticeably hesitated in his choice of version. The first is hallucinations. After all, reindeer herders - Buryats, Nenets, Khanty - assured that their shamans knew how to “set the heavens on fire in different ways”. But such fires do not seem to everyone, not always, but "only to those for whom they were ordered." It turns out that frozen lightning is a phenomenon induced by witchcraft practices. Let's try to figure it out based on the personal experience of eyewitnesses from Iceland.that their shamans know how to "set the heavens on fire in different ways." But such fires do not seem to everyone, not always, but "only to those for whom they were ordered." It turns out that frozen lightning is a phenomenon induced by witchcraft practices. Let's try to figure it out based on the personal experience of eyewitnesses from Iceland.that their shamans know how to "set the heavens on fire in different ways." But such fires do not seem to everyone, not always, but "only to those for whom they were ordered." It turns out that frozen lightning is a phenomenon induced by witchcraft practices. Let's try to figure it out based on the personal experience of eyewitnesses from Iceland.
FLAME OVER THE FJORDS
The 281,000 people who inhabit the island of Iceland in the north of the Atlantic Ocean are hardly surprised by various celestial phenomena, including frozen lightning. They deny their supernatural nature, arguing that in the conditions of a subarctic maritime climate, frequent earthquakes, active volcanoes, sudden changes in atmospheric pressure, mild winter air temperatures - 0 degrees Celsius - and you will not see, hear, feel like that. It is no coincidence that there is even a scientific term "Icelandic depression" - an area of low atmospheric pressure, centered over the North Atlantic, between Iceland and South Greenland.
This depression usually manifests itself in winter, driving people and animals into depression, especially in the vicinity of the fjords. In the diaries of the Norwegian polar traveler and sailor Raul Amundsen, dated 1893, you can read: “The fjords of Iceland are remembered for the winter flashes above them. The prologue to them - the real lightning that develops when static electric discharges crackle on objects and clothes, became severe headaches for all my comrades and for me. When the back of his head began to rip, electric cords pierced the sky at dusk. The spectacle was harmless, colorful, and immediately slowed down as it arose. Lightning slowed down and froze. The motionless cords of fire could be admired for a long time, until an icy rain began to fall at the surface of the earth, turning into a prickly icy suspension. I have not seen anything like this in my homeland, only in Iceland."
Strukov's and Nansen's impressions are similar. Nansen also grieves that after the lighting effects over the fjords, two of his companions - full of strength, big men - suddenly died a day later. “Sharp spikes in atmospheric pressure are deadly even for hardy trained people,” Nansen believed.
Our great compatriot, biophysicist, geologist, founder of heliobiology A. L. Chizhevsky directly linked light and sound phenomena in the atmosphere of planet Earth with the activity of the Sun, calling them an echo of solar storms. He, who ripped the veil of mysticism from the phenomenon, was undoubtedly right.