Thanks SM for the ping.
Thanks for the ping. See page 182, Worlds in Collision, Immanuel Velikovsky:
"...anyone who has experienced a khamsin (sirocco), an electrically charged wind blowing from the desert..."
To which I might add the evident electrical activity that takes place before and during a tornado.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050330tornado-electric-discharge.htm
The Electric Tornado story. Thunderbolts thumbs up!