summer lightning

Example Sentences

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Still, he said, it’s too early to accurately forecast the summer lightning season.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2023

Even before freak summer lightning storms lit up the state weeks earlier than expected and Covid-19 and the climate crisis became dueling calamities, fire crews were bracing for season of record-breaking infernos across the west.

From The Guardian • Sep. 15, 2020

Those firefighters will have plenty to do this summer; lightning strikes will keep them busy.

From Washington Times • Jun. 27, 2018

Mary now calls the book her “hideous progeny”, and claims that the whole idea came to her instantly, like an emotional bolt of summer lightning on waking from a terrible nightmare.

From Nature • Jul. 26, 2016

At intervals mild summer lightning quivered in the air.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers