St. Elmo’s Fire

St. Elmo's fire is an uncommon but extremely bizarre natural phenomena, not simply an underappreciated 1980s film and song combo. Saint Erasmus, sometimes known as St. Elmo, is the patron saint of sailors, and his name refers to an electrical phenomenon that occurs during storms but is unmistakably not lightning.

Back then, seamen noticed the phenomenon around their ship's masts. It has been noticed for a very long time and most frequently took the form of a blue light. Sometimes you may even see it on the wings of airplanes. Basically, anything that gets exposed during a storm and has a point or sharp edge.

Lightning and the St. Elmo's fire are not the same thing. Actually, it's a plasma discharge. Storm-generated electricity has the ability to heat gas molecules to the point where they become plasma in modest concentrations. These seem to concentrate more readily around sharp objects, such as ship masts, but it appears that they have also been noticed near animal horns, which must be the coolest thing in the world to witness personally.