Monsoon II: Mike Olbinski’s Arizona Storm Time-Lapse of the 2015 Season
Shelf clouds rolling over the desert, rain shafts hanging from towering cells, walls of blowing dust and lightning almost everywhere you loo...
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Lightning Photography & Storm Stories
Discover lightning photography and storm films that capture dramatic moments in the sky. Explore the weather stories behind these scenes, then browse cloud formations, powerful winds and more natural phenomena.
Rambo the Dog and the 2015 Mount Bierstadt Lightning Strike
On Sunday 28 June 2015, Jonathan Hardman set out to climb Colorado's Mount Bierstadt with three friends and two dogs, one of them his se...
12 Strange Weather Photographs: Snow Rollers, Lightning, Waterspouts, Hail
Weather produces some of the strangest pictures ever taken: a field covered in natural snow rolls, a town sleeping on a lawn to escape the ...
Lightning Photos: 20 Thunderstorms Over Cities, Canyons and a Volcano
A lightning bolt lasts a fraction of a second, but it heats the air around it to about 50,000 °F (27,700 °C), roughly five times hotter tha...
Chicago Triple Lightning Strike: Craig Shimala's 2010 and 2014 Videos
On the evening of 30 June 2014, a violent line of storms swept across Chicago, and photographer Craig Shimala was ready with his cameras. O...
Storm Chaser Photography: Eccles, Hollingshead, Seaman and Samaras
Some of the most powerful weather pictures ever made come from people who spend whole seasons driving towards storms. This collection bring...
Storm Chaser Struck by Lightning: Scott Sheppard Near Fairburn, SD
On 27 May 2014, storm chaser Scott Sheppard pulled over near Fairburn, South Dakota, held his phone out of the driver's window to film ...
Lightning Photography: 7 Strikes from Ikaria to Eyjafjallajökull and Paris
Lightning lasts a fraction of a second, but a camera on a tripod can hold it still. These seven photographs catch it at two erupting volcan...
Clear-Air Lightning Bolt in Darwin: William Nguyen-Phuoc’s Close Strike
The sky over the tree looks harmless, with no rain curtain and no storm overhead, when a blinding cloud-to-ground bolt slams into the ground...
Slow-Motion Lightning Strike: One Second Stretched to Three Minutes
A lightning flash is over in about half a second, far too fast for the eye to follow. Slowed down with a high-speed camera, the same strike ...