Three most powerful hurricanes of 2005 were filled with mysterious lightning

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The ER-2 en route to a hurricane.
The ER-2 en route to a hurricane.

The boom of thunder and crackle of lightning generally mean one thing: a storm is coming. Curiously, though, the biggest storms of all, hurricanes, are notoriously lacking in lightning. Hurricanes blow, they rain, they flood, but seldom do they crackle.


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