Hurricanes, lightning, and tornadoes

Introduction

The accumulation of cometary dust in the Earth's atmosphere plays an important role in the increase of tornadoes, cyclones, hurricanes and their associated rainfalls, snowfalls and lightning. To understand this mechanism we must first take into account the electric nature of hurricanes, tornadoes and cyclones, which are actually manifestations of the same electric phenomenon at different scales or levels of power. Because of this similarity, we will refer to these three phenomena collectively as 'air spirals' in the following discussion.

Discharge frequency

If air spirals are electrically driven, how then can we explain an increase in their frequency when the Sun's activity has dropped and the atmospheric E-field has therefore weakened¹? While the overall atmospheric E-field has indeed weakened, another factor must be taken into account. The increase in atmospheric dust concentration² reduces the electric conductivity of the atmosphere.³ Conductivity in the atmosphere is due to the mobility of small ions. When dust is present, these ions, instead of moving freely, attach to the relatively large dust particles and lose mobility, hence the decrease in atmospheric conductivity.⁴

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This additional feature of dust particles - their ability to carry an electric charge - means that dust accumulation enables any given area of the atmosphere to carry potentially massive electric charges, which can differ from the charge of adjacent regions, from the charge of the ionosphere and from the charge of the Earth's surface.

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Lightning and hurricanes seem to be a similar charge rebalancing processes. Lightning mostly occurs above continents and is far less frequent above oceans.¹ This may be due to the difference between ground conductivity and sea conductivity. When electrons start flowing upwards from the ocean, the high conductivity of salt water² usually prevents the formation of electron-deficient regions, which is one of the causes of lightning. However, when the upward electron flow occurs above a continent, the poor conductivity of the ground³ enables the formation of electron-deficient pockets that will trigger and receive lightning discharges.

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