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CS,B time: Dr. Dwyer taught part of my Atmospheric Physics course last year, set aside a class to explain this to us. Rough summation: Jets and sprites be crazy.
Great article that summarizes our current understanding of terrestrial gamma ray production in thunderstorms. Who knew antimatter was involved. This part gets me: Preliminary calculations, however, show that if an airline flight happened to be struck directly by the energetic electrons and gamma rays inside a storm, passengers and crew members could-without feeling anything-receive up to a lifetime's natural radiation dose in a fraction of a second. A bit of good news is that we do not need to warn pilots to stay away from thunderstorms, because they already do so; thunderstorms are very dangerous places to be, with or without gamma rays.
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