These striking photos of lightning will bring a sparkle to your day! Thunderstorms can be overwhelming but they can also be soothing. Lightning is Mother Nature’s powerful reminder of who’s really in charge and it can be humbling to experience. From the Swiss Federal Palace in Bern that looks like a scene straight out of a painting to lightning bolts that seem to connect the heavy sky with the horizon, these pictures will amaze you.

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Switzerland

The Swiss Federal Palace in Bern looks like a scene straight out of a painting during a thunderstorm in July 2009.

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Indonesia

This beautiful photograph taken from Ketep village in Magelang captures the moment lightning struck Mount Merapi volcano during the November 2010 eruptions.

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United States

The Empire State Building became a sight worthy of a Stephen King novel in this 1957 shot.

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Serbia

A string of lightning bolts light up the sky over Belgrade in June 2011.

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Chile

The Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano, which had been dormant for decades, erupted in June 2011, gushing ash more than 10 km into the air and producing this incredible dirty thunderstorm.

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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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United States

The One World Trade Center in Manhattan taps a bolt of lightning as the sun sets behind the city during a summer storm in July 2014.

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Canada

This shot captures the moment when the CN Tower in Toronto is struck by lightning during a thunderstorm in May 2011.

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China

The heavy thunderstorm turned Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, pink and purple in September 2014.

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United States

The famous Las Vegas Strip becomes ever more illuminated as a thunderstorm passed in September 2017.

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Lebanon

Lightning bolts seem to connect the heavy sky with the horizon offshore Beirut in October 2008.

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