Puzzling Electric Hurricanes

SpaceAdmiral writes "Hurricanes seldom have lightning because they primarily consist of horizontal winds (as opposed to vertical winds). However, three of the biggest storms of 2005 (Rita, Katrina, and Emily) had plenty of lightning and NASA has an interesting write-up about it." Bottom line is "we still have a lot to learn about hurricanes."

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the fact of the matter is

[Anonymous Coward]

that each and every geek here is a cold-blooded cocksmoker..

face it, you love the tast of ball sap!

Looks like the work of Bush's new hurricane machin

[large_satchell]

This just furthur backs the theory that people now have the ability to spawn (and destroy) hurricanes at will using scalar weaponry and resonating EM-energy beams.

The stage is now set for a long winter:
http://www.weatherwars.info/

quoted from http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/09jan_elec trichurricanes.htm :
Indeed, the electric fields above Emily were among the strongest ever measured by the aircraft's sensors over any storm. "We observed steady fields in excess of 8 kilovolts per meter," says Blakeslee. "That is huge--comparable to the strongest fields we would expect to find over a large land-based 'mesoscale' thunderstorm."

George Bush

[nurb432]

Its his fault.. it must be.. right?

Well Duh!

[EmagGeek]

Most NORMAL hurricanes don't have lightning. But, these weren't normal hurricanes. These hurricanes were created by the Bush Administration and their super-secret hurricane-creating weapon of mass destruction! Everyone knows that. They knew that a couple of devastating hurricanes in oil country would boost their profits, especially since Dick Cheney owns a whopping ZERO shares of Halliburton.