Electrical storms create awesome, beautiful displays of nature around the world. Lightning is known to occur on average 44 times a second over the entire earth, totaling nearly 1.4 billion flashes a year. Defined as a powerful sudden flow of electricity accompanied by thunder during an electrical storm it makes for stunningly dramatic scenes.
In this photo, stunning lightning flashes occur over the Las Vegas Strip as a thunderstorm dumps rain and hail
Lightning strikes over Lake Maracaibo in the village of Ologa, where the Catatumbo River feeds into the lake in the western state of Zulia in Venezuela .
Catatumbo lightning was included in the 2015 Guinness World Records, dethroning the Congolese town of Kifuka, as the place with the world’s most lightning bolts per square kilometer each year at 250. Catatumbo lightning flashes several times per minute, 140 to 160 nights per year, accounting for about 25% of the world’s production of upper-atmospheric ozone.
Lightning streaks across the sky as lava flows from a volcano in Eyjafjallajokul in Iceland,
Volcanic lightning strikes, combining flashes with ash from an erupting volcano brings two powerful forces of raw nature together with mesmerizing results.
