electrical storm

Example Sentences

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In September 2023, seemingly innocuous clouds turned into a sudden electrical storm on the summit of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2025

There wasn’t enough food to go around, and the whole unsheltered crowd nearly fried in an electrical storm.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2024

The San Francisco 49ers opened the NFL postseason Saturday with a doomlike explosiveness: They were a crackling electrical storm of a team that offered no respite.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2023

Meanwhile in Spain’s eastern Valencia region, an electrical storm triggered a fire that forced the evacuation of Azuébar, a village of 300 people, according to the local government in Castellón.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2021

Tonight the dispatcher was reporting a couple of minor fender benders and a local boy who went missing on his bicycle during the electrical storm.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen