Eos had an interesting article this week about how turbulent pockets of air inside of thunderstorms can help set up the conditions necessarily for lightning, a new finding published recently in Journal of Geophysics: Atmospheres. The new study shows that the bumpy air not only caused your plane to jump up and down but can help increase static electricity inside of the clouds, helping to build up the charges needed to produce lightning. You can read more about it at https://eos.org/research-spotlights/how-storm-turbulence-can-spark-lightning.
