"Dry lightning" (electrical storm without rainfall) brightly lights the sky above a stunted, doomed, Kansas corn crop during the 1980 drought. The devastating dry season swept the middle of the U.S. from North Dakota to Texas, costing $ billions in farm crop, livestock and poultry losses.

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