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In Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia we can see these images of the electrical storm in the Alboran Sea, accompanied by heavy rains in Mijas Costa last morning.
These are snapshots that show us a devilish sky, as if lightning had unloaded hell on the sea.
An electrical storm is a meteorological phenomenon characterized by the presence of lightning and its sound effects in the earth’s atmosphere called thunder.
These types of storms occur when a mass of warm, moist air rises to meet cold air. This mixture forms clouds called cumulonimbus that are the creators of the electrical storm.
They are the very dark, gray clouds that we see when a storm is approaching. Cumulonimbus are clouds of great vertical development, which obeys the speed of the ascent produced by the convective movement.
For its part, lightning is formed when the electricity of the opposite poles that is in a cloud moves. Either towards another cloud or towards the ground, through the air, which acts as a conductor.
Lightning is a powerful natural electrical discharge of static electricity, produced during a thunderstorm, which generates an electromagnetic pulse.
The Alboran Sea, historically called the Iberian Sea (Mare Ibericum), dominates the westernmost part of the Mediterranean. The surface currents of the Alboran Sea flow eastward, bringing Atlantic water to the Mediterranean.
And undercurrents flow westward, carrying the warmer, saltier Mediterranean waters toward the Atlantic. In this area, the winds dominate from east (known as “Levante”) to west.
After the electrical storm at dawn, it has dawned drizzling, as can be seen in this last photograph taken from the coast of Fuengirola.
