Bolt from the blue: Lightning doesn’t form like we thought

[rangerrebew]

11 April 2017
Bolt from the blue: Lightning doesn’t form like we thought



By Shannon Hall

JOSEPH DWYER had never been a big fan of flying. Things took a distinct turn for the worse, though, when his plane accidentally flew into a thunderstorm. “I was certain that we were all about to die,” he says.

But it comes with the territory. When Dwyer, a lightning researcher at the University of New Hampshire, began a study that would take him near the edges of thunderclouds in a Gulfstream V jet, he knew it would mean getting up close and personal.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23431210-500-electric-atmosphere-how-lightning-is-born-shocking-discovery-rewriting-the-story-of-lightning/