lightning storm

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In 1985, another group of hikers who took shelter in the same cave during a lightning storm were not so lucky.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2025

Now scientists have released data showing that the subsequent ash plume also broke another record: the most extreme lightning storm known, with 192,000 flashes over 11 hours.

From Scientific American • Aug. 19, 2023

The January 2022 eruption of an underwater volcano in Tonga produced the most extreme lightning storm ever recorded.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 21, 2023

We needed clear skies to make the star field photographs, and I needed to avoid camping above the tree line in a lightning storm.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2023

“And he fights like a lightning storm in a hat, but he’s also gots us fired from eight different jobs, any of which would have done us well enough.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell