Some thunderstorms are so powerful that they create ripples in the atmosphere 80 to 90 km high, at the edge of space itself

A Bullseye in the Sky Over Texas

When we see patterns in the atmosphere from space, they tend to be in the clouds of powerful storms. These all have roughly the same form: they look like a spiral galaxy with arms spinning out from the core.

But meteorologists have detected other organizational principles at work. Like, take the fascinating image above. It shows .... well, I wasn't sure exactly what it showed. A meteorologist's blog post described them as "convectively-generated mesospheric
[link to www.theatlantic.com]

Is that a new term for chemtrails?

Rather, it is the electrical activity in space that causes the storms on Earth.

I just saw something similar to this on NOVA. They were talking about sprites and such.

Electrical activity at the edge of space I'd venture......Right up in the ionosphere.

Nothing new here. Go away before some lib loons think it has something to do with global warming bullshit.