Dramatic photos show tree burning from inside after lightning strike in Ohio

Flashes of lightning lit up Hurricane Erin’s eye – just as it intensified into a Category 5 storm. Footage from NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite shows electricity crackling around the storm’s eye as it intensified on Saturday night. With winds surging past 160 mph (260 km/h), Erin became one of the fastest-intensifying hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic. That flash of lightning in the eyewall? Scientists say it’s a telltale sign of extreme convection and turbulence inside the storm – the kind that