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An electrical storm off the coast of Byron Bay, Australia. The changing sky dazzles with a natural light show of lightning bolts and billowing clouds dance in the sky for hours.

How lightning passes gas

By Laura Baisas

Long, horizontal streaks of spider lightning below the base of a storm cloud in the Arizona desert in 2008.

A record-breaking lightning bolt just ‘shocked’ meteorologists

By Laura Baisas

Lightning striking tree at night

Lightning kills 320 million trees each year

several lightning strikes in the distance. a man crouches down in a squatting position with his hands over his ears. a red circle with a line through it is over the image, indicating that this is not what to do during lightning

Actually, it’s not safe to crouch during a lightning storm

By Laura Baisas

Lightning strike at night

NASA’s U-2 spy plane found gamma rays in 90% of lightning storms

The so-called 'severe-convective storms' are large and powerful thunderstorms that form and disappear within a few hours or days, often spinning off hail storms and tornadoes as they shoot across the flat expanses of the central United States.

How ‘kitty cats’ are wrecking the home insurance industry

By Jake Bittle/Grist