<story><title>Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2024-10-amount-variety-gamma-large-tropical.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cperciva</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Positively charged particles end up at the top of the storm while negatively charged particles drop to the bottom, creating an enormous electric field that can be as strong as 100 million AA batteries stacked end-to-end.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or put another way, 150 MV.  What&amp;#x27;s with this media obsession with using obscure non-SI units?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>liversage</author><text>In my neck of the woods it&amp;#x27;s called &amp;quot;journalist units&amp;quot;: three soccer fields, five blue whales etc.&lt;p&gt;Somebody even created a website to facilitate conversion but unfortunately the TLS certificate has expired and Cloudflare now blocks access.&lt;p&gt;Article in Danish: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ing.dk&amp;#x2F;artikel&amp;#x2F;lynch-nu-kan-ogsaa-journalister-faa-styr-paa-stoerrelserne&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ing.dk&amp;#x2F;artikel&amp;#x2F;lynch-nu-kan-ogsaa-journalister-faa-s...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2024-10-amount-variety-gamma-large-tropical.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cperciva</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Positively charged particles end up at the top of the storm while negatively charged particles drop to the bottom, creating an enormous electric field that can be as strong as 100 million AA batteries stacked end-to-end.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or put another way, 150 MV.  What&amp;#x27;s with this media obsession with using obscure non-SI units?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway314155</author><text>Familiarity with the unit is important to gauge scale.</text></comment>