Catching lightning in a volcanic bottle

What do you get when you marry two of Earths most dramatic natural events, lightning and volcanoes? The answer is a dirty storm, an infernal melange of lightning, magmatic fire and ash that surpasses even the wildest Hollywood disaster movie effects. If the volcano has enough energy, dozens of bolts — which blast upwards, rather than downwards — can spawn in the ash. At at the Volcán Calbuco in Chile, photographer Francisco Negroni captured a stunning example of the phenomenon, ……
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