Such storms produce lightning and rain, but dry air will suck up most of the precipitation before it hits the ground.

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The lightning American advance on Baghdad, beginning before the air-war proper, recovered an element of surprise that the large and ponderous deployment seemed to have forfeited.

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But while of particular interest to the electrical storm specialists at Cardiff University, lightning is just one of the many extreme weather phenomena encountered by planes when in the air.

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