Dirty Thunderstorms: Lightning Inside A Volcano ⚡🌋 #science #volcano #lightning #earth #shorts

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]This shouldn't exist, but it does. When a volcano erupts, it creates its own lightning storm.

[00:00:05]Not around it, inside it.

[00:00:07]Lightning crackling through a column of fire and ash shooting miles into the sky.

[00:00:13]It is called a dirty thunderstorm. When a volcano erupts, it launches billions of ash particles into the atmosphere at enormous speed. Those particles collide.

[00:00:23]The friction builds an electric charge until the atmosphere can no longer hold it and it discharges inside a column of fire. Lightning inside a volcano. Stay with me because here is the part nobody talks about.

[00:00:36]Scientists believe dirty thunderstorms may have triggered the origin of life on Earth.

[00:00:41]The lightning inside ash clouds creates chemical reactions that may have first produced amino acids, the building blocks of all living things.

[00:00:50]The most violent thing on the planet may have created everything on it. If that just rewired you, follow Reality Is Stranger for more.