That’s right, mofo! Thunderstorms and volcanoes have teamed up, and they’re putting the mutha back into mother nature with a capital holy hell how did that happen?!?! What’s next, earthquakes and tidal waves? Oh, right.

When Alaska’s Mount Redoubt volcano began rumbling back to life in January, a team of researchers scrambled to set up a system called a Lightning Mapping Array that would be able to peer through the dust and gas of any eruption that occurred to the lightning storm happening within. Lightning is known to flash in the tumultuous clouds belched out during volcanic eruptions.

In light of this phenomena, I think that Alaska needs to change their state motto from “We’ve got eskimos and oil” to “Volcano Lightining, can I get a what-what?“. I’ll start ordering the rubber stamps with the new motto on them, you can work on changing the state bird to something awesome like the pterodactyl thunder strike or the chain lightning eagle whip. In 2009, Alaska turns this mutha out. Word.

Pterodactyl thunder strike! (volcano lightning) [ geekologie] via [live science]

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