Armed with a slew of new instruments, physicists are closing in on one of nature’s oldest mysteries — and finding that storm clouds are seething with violent and unexpected phenomena.
The title makes it seem less interesting than it is.
Clouds do have electric fields […]. But these fields are weak. Typical thunderstorms have just a tenth the electric juice needed to spark, and the strongest fields ever measured reach just a third of the critical intensity.
The title makes it seem less interesting than it is.