I flew over this area (going TX to WA) the day after this and saw a similar storm. It was absolutely mesmerizing. Discharges occurred every few seconds the enti

I flew over this area (going TX to WA) the day after this and saw a similar storm. It was absolutely mesmerizing. Discharges occurred every few seconds the entire time we flew around it--an even mixture of intra-cloud and cloud-to-ground. I've never seen anything like it. On a related note, several days earlier, I flew from IL to LA ahead of a storm system in the Midwest and was in some roller coaster turbulence, so bad that the crew said it was rare for them. Not fun.