{"id":675,"date":"2023-02-06T05:05:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T05:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-remote-lake-where-lightning-strikes-1-6-million-times-per-year-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-02-06T05:05:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T05:05:51","slug":"the-remote-lake-where-lightning-strikes-1-6-million-times-per-year-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-remote-lake-where-lightning-strikes-1-6-million-times-per-year-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The remote lake where lightning strikes 1.6 million times per year \u2013 BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UkfYllSZMxs?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In a remote part of Venezuela, the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo. It&#8217;s a stunning location and home to one of Earth&#8217;s most extraordinary weather phenomena \u2013 the Catatumbo lightning.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s estimated that lightning strikes over the lake 1.6 million times per year, making it a storm chaser&#8217;s dream.<\/p>\n<p>Environmentalist Erik Quiroga explains his deep connection to this unique phenomenon and why it&#8217;s of so much interest to scientists and locals alike.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Rafael Hernandez<br \/>\nNarrator \/ Executive Producer: Howard Timberlake<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Reel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/bbcreel?sub_confirmation=1 <\/p>\n<p>More videos: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/reel<\/p>\n<p>#bbc #bbcreel #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UkfYllSZMxs\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a remote part of Venezuela, the Catatumbo River meets Lake Maracaibo. It&#8217;s a stunning location and home to one of Earth&#8217;s most extraordinary weather phenomena \u2013 the Catatumbo lightning. It&#8217;s estimated that lightning strikes over the lake 1.6 million times per year, making it a storm chaser&#8217;s dream. Environmentalist Erik Quiroga explains his deep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-physics","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}