thunder and lightning
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Four of the first 21 games faced waits ranging from 40 minutes to two-and-a-half hours for thunder and lightning storms and heavy rain.
From BBC • Jun. 20, 2025
Harbaugh indeed arrived as a mixture of thunder and lightning, both charming and disarming Thursday’s crowd with a mesh of motivation and eccentricity all soaked in old-school pigskin talk.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2024
Warm temperatures allow the atmosphere to hold more humidity, and that humidity is a prerequisite for building clouds—specifically, the tall, menacing cumulonimbus clouds that produce thunder and lightning.
From National Geographic • Sep. 12, 2023
It warned of so-called dry storms - thunder and lightning without rainfall - in many parts of the country.
From Reuters • Aug. 9, 2023
Outside, the thunder and lightning snapped right alongside each other, perfect secret drawing weather.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
