Is St. Elmo's Fire a natural or a paranormal phenomena? Please explain.?

Question

Is St. Elmo's Fire a natural or a paranormal phenomena? Please explain.?

Answer 1

Learn something new every day on here!! Till now..I thought it was the name of a tv pretend hospital!! Thanks for teaching me!!

Answer 2

Its natural, just a build up of static electricity.  See----

http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/el...

Answer 3

It's definitely natural. My friends Dad was in the navy, and he said that he had seen it loads of times... SPOOKY!!!

Answer 4

Natural.  It's a buildup of charge, sometimes seen on the sails of

a ship during a storm.  It was rumored to be a sign that St. Elmo was protecting them, but I don't know how that rumor got started because it actually meant that they were about to be hit by lightening.  It's a blue light, kinda like what you see if you build up static electricity and shock someone, or when someone sticks something in an electrical socket.  Same idea.

Answer 5

It's natural.  No need to explain since it's pretty well understood.

Answer 6

It is due to the burning of the Phosphor contained in the bones at the contact with the oxygen of the air.

Answer 7

Natural.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elmo%27...