Hurricanes of 2005 were filled with mysterious lightning

[Celebration]

http://www.physorg.com/news9828.html

The boom of thunder and crackle of lightning generally mean one thing: a storm is coming. Curiously, though, the biggest storms of all, hurricanes, are notoriously lacking in lightning. Hurricanes blow, they rain, they flood, but seldom do they crackle.

Surprise: During the record-setting hurricane season of 2005 three of the most powerful storms--Rita, Katrina, and Emily--did have lightning, lots of it. And researchers would like to know why.

Richard Blakeslee of the Global Hydrology and Climate Center (GHCC) in Huntsville, Alabama, was one of a team of scientists who explored Hurricane Emily using NASA's ER-2 aircraft, a research version of the famous U-2 spy plane. Flying high above the storm, they noted frequent lightning in the cylindrical wall of clouds surrounding the hurricane's eye. Both cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning were present, "a few flashes per minute," says Blakeslee.

"Generally there's not a lot of lightning in the eye-wall region," he says. "So when people see lightning there, they perk up -- they say, okay, something's happening."

[Taverner]

1. This means Michael Crichton was right!

Environmentalists really used a secret weather machine!!!!

:sarcasm:

[peacetalksforall]

4. If they can create lightening, they can 'guide' direction. RIght?

This all melts down to distrust, disgust, and disbelief. We put nothing past our diabolical leaders. They are the ones who have proven that nothing is sacred. Who would have ever believed that our country would be led by people who plan to take over the Middle East and surrounding countries and have killed children and allowed human, country, city, town, and historical treasures to be destroyed to gain that objective.

Diabolical - I put nothing past any of these creatures.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. Interesting post . . . I hadn't heard about that n/t

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. oooooh

anybody been watching "Surface"?

Okay, okay, it's a dumb show. But the monsters make lightning.

[M155Y_A1CH]

5. Ocean salinity?

Has glacial melting changed the oceans into electrolite?
Something new must be charging these storms.

[BOSSHOG]

6. Now that you mention it

The eye of Katrina went over us in South Mississippi and there was lightning. I thought nothing of it but it sure was there. What I thought bizarre was the number of seagulls flying around in a counter clock wise direction in the eye. A 24 hour period I will never forget.

[soothsayer]

7. HAARP

[greyl]

8. NO

Vertical winds.

[greyl]

9. "Lightning has been seen in hurricanes before." !

That quote is from the article, originally from here:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/09jan_electrichurricanes.htm

Please read every sentence as critically and carefully as you would a piece written by the Swiftboaters about Cindy Sheehan. Read the article as if the headline didn't exist.

"Actually, says Blakeslee, the reason most hurricanes don't have lightning is understood. "They're missing a key ingredient: vertical winds."

• Most of us agree that the gulf waters were warmer last year.
  
• Heat rises. The hotter the heat, the faster it rises.
  
• Lightning occurs in thunderclouds because of vertical winds.
  
• The most vertical components of airflow in hurricanes exist in the eye.
  
• The "mysterious" lightning mentioned in the article occurred along the eye-walls of hurricanes over gulf waters.
  
• Hurricanes intensify over the gulf.
  
• We haven'

"A hurricane research campaign in 1998 showed that hurricanes typically don't produce much lightning, but sometimes they can. What we want to know is why," said Monte Bateman of the Universities Space Research Association. "Some longtime hurricane pilots have reported that when a hurricane does produce lightning, intensification often follows."
http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/essd16jun99_1.htm"

Connect those dots, CTers.

edit:

When lightning strikes during a hurricane, Dr. John Hallett--a professor in DRI's Atmospheric Sciences Center and recipient of the 1998 Nevada Regents Researcher Award--is not far behind. As one of the world's leading scientists in the study of ice crystals and cloud
A typical lightning strike, from a lower-level negative charge in the cloud to the ground.
electrification, he is especially interested in the relatively rare occurrence of lightning associated with these rotating, tropical storms. http://newsletter.dri.edu/1999/spring/Lightning.html

Human triplets are relatively rare, aren't they? But, there's a 'simple' explanation for them.
And other than the intercourse, no conspiracy theory needed. :)