Electrifying Photos of Lightning That Will Give You Thrills

France

Sunflowers face away from the storm rolling in over Donzère in southeastern France.

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United States

An overnight storm in June 2005 produced this beautiful predawn sky over Nevada.

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Afghanistan

Lightning frames an armored vehicle at Combat Outpost Terminator in Maiwand District, Kandahar Province, in 2010.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

This photograph was taken at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potočari on July 10, 2012, the night before a mass burial for 520 recently identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

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Chile

This striking photo captures the moment several lightning bolts engulf the ashes produced by the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano in June 2011.

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