Lightning

A recent thunderstorm over Illinois was captured on slow-motion video as lightning lit up the sky over a cornfield.

According to a recent weather study, a small town in Southern Indiana got the most lightning in 2024. The results are truly shocking!

You think you've seen a lot of tornadoes in Illinois already in 2024, right? Well, you've never seen anything like what the world's worst time traveler just predicted. It's a twister set to hit in December that is powered by lightning and moves 800 mph. 1.21 Gigawatts!

I could say that I've found a shocking moment to share with you, but that would overload my pun meter. It truly is an awesome sight as there's a short, but sweet video of lightning striking the Gateway Arch in St. Louis with a massive charge of 300 million volts.

If you blink, you can miss a lightening strike. It's much easier to take in the awesome power of these sky bolts when it's slowed down to 10,000 frames-per-second which is what a photographer in St. Louis did yesterday as thunderstorms moved through the metro area.

If you have lived in the Midwest as long as I have, you have no doubt seen some incredible lightning displays. But, I bet you've never seen a bolt as massive as the one a photographer just captured on video with his drone over Missouri.

As violent thunderstorms moved through Chicago yesterday, a very famous baseball landmark ended up on the receiving end of quite a jolt - Wrigley Field.

We see thunderstorms that sometimes produce tornadoes and many that also produce lighting. One recent Midwest thunderstorm decided to overachieve by doing both simultaneously.

You've likely seen your share of lightning and probably a lot of rainbows. But, I doubt you've ever seen lightning strike inside of a double rainbow and that's exactly what happened during a Midwest thunderstorm. Oh, and it happened on Friday the 13th.

Nature is wild.

Someone likely needed a change of pants after this. A fisherman stayed out on the lake a little too long after a thunderstorm moved into his area and came THIS close to a lightning strike in the lake just in front of his boat as his video shows.