Dazzling satellite video reveals lightning dancing inside a mega-complex of thunderstorms

As a giant complex of thunderstorms blew across Iowa and into Illinois and Missouri on June 14, the GOES-16 weather satellite was watching — and mapping the crackling lightning discharges.The result is the video above, originally posted to the terrific GOES-16 Loop of the Day site. I found it so compelling that I wanted to share it here at ImaGeo.You're looking at a "mesoscale convective system" — a group of thunderstorms that organize into a large complex. And this MC