TSUNAMI'S,MONSOON'S IN ASIA..EARTHQUAKES..TORNADOES IN THE DIRTY SOUTH..HURRICANE KATRINA..HAILSTORMS IN APRIL..SNOWSTORMS IN CHINA..AND NOW VOLCANOES WITH FIRE & LIGHTNING ERUPTING..LETS FACE IT MOTHER NATURE IS GETTING BUSY..WE WILL BE PRODUCING A LECTURE ENTITLED "WEATHER WARS" REAL SOON..STAY TUNED IN
May 6, 2008—After 9,000 years of silence, Chile's Chaitén volcano (pictured on May 3) is erupting with lava, ash—and lightning (full story).
Since the volcano awoke on May 2, it has continued erupting intermittently, blanketing the area in ash and forcing more than 4,000 people to flee.
(Related photos: "Chile Volcano Threatens Animals, Farms.")
The mingling of lightning and ash seen above may be a "dirty thunderstorm."
The little-understood storms may be sparked when rock fragments, ash, and ice particles in the plume collide to produce static charges—just as ice particles collide to create charge in regular thunderstorms. (More: "Volcanic Lightning Sparked by 'Dirty Thunderstorms,' Study Finds" [February, 2, 2007].)
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