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Lightning Strike Ground Stock Photos

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Forked cloud-to-ground lightning bolt hits rural terrain, Ogallala, Nebraska, US

Hitting, Lightning

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thunder storm, lightning hits a hill

Forest, Lightning, Hitting

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Lightning, Hitting, Purple

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Cloud storm sky with thunderbolt over the village in rural scene

Storm, Thunderstorm, Lightning

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Lightning strikes in the hills

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Bright white lightning strike on blue sky

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Lightning Bolts Strike on Plateau, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, United States

Lightning, Thunderstorm, Electricity

Late afternoon scenic with oblique cloud-to-ground lightning discharge, Scud clouds with ragged bottom are indicative of violent storm, Plants in...

Late afternoon scenic with oblique cloud-to-ground lightning discharge Scud clouds with ragged bottom are indicative of violent storm Plants in foreground are purple sage and dried Dicoria canescens Monument Valley, Arizona, USA

Lightning, Air Raid, Scud

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The Downfall of Pompeii (79 AD), lithograph, published in 1852.

Despair, Pompeii, Ancient Rome

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Active storm cell over city with scud clouds in foreground and a rain curtain behind, containing multiple cloud-to-ground lightning discharges Tucson, Arizona, USA

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Lightning at thunderstorm.

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5th FLEET AREA OF OPERATIONS U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Rey White, an aviation boatswains mate handler with the Essex Amphibious Ready Group ,...

F-35B Lightning II- Ready to Strike

F-35 Fighter, Navy, Violence

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Cloud-to-ground lightning strike in the Tucson Mountains Tucson, Arizona, USA Digital

Lightning strikes as monsoon season storms bring desert-nourishing rain to Southwestern deserts on August 17, 2024 near Page, Arizona. A shift in...

Monsoon Season In Arizona and Utah

Lightning strikes as monsoon season storms bring desert-nourishing rain to Southwestern deserts on August 17, 2024 near Page, Arizona. A shift in...

Monsoon Season In Arizona and Utah

Lightning strikes over the Rio de la Plata during a thunderstorm in Montevideo on September 29, 2025.

TOPSHOT-URUGUAY-WEATHER-CLIMATE-STORM

Lightning, TopShot, Weather

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Lightning Strike on Lake Buchanan

Lightning, Storm, Rain

Lightning strikes east of the eastern front of the McKinney Fire, in the Klamath National Forest near Yreka, California on August 2, 2022. Like a...

US-ENVIRONMENT-CALIFORNIA-FIRE

Lightning, California, National Forest

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Lightning strike in rural landscape

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Cloud to ground lightning strikes during a supercell thunderstorm, May 9, 2017 in Lamb County, Texas. Tuesday was the group's second day in the field...

Center For Severe Weather Research Scientists Search For Tornadoes To Study

Supercell, Lightning, Tornado

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beautiul and dramatic lightning in sky. Dark, ominous rain clouds and lightning

Danger, Weather, Storm

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Lightning strike over the Carribean

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Distant lightning strike over mountains

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Lightning Strike near Tucson

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In this long exposure image, Mt. Sakurajima erupts as a volcanic lightning strikes on November 16, 2025 in Tarumizu, Kagoshima, Japan.

Mt. Sakurajima Erupts

Lightning, Japan, Mt Sakurajima

View of a lightning strike at Joshua Tree National Park in California, United States on August 26, 2025. Joshua Tree National Park is a vast...

Joshua Tree National Park in California

Lightning strikes on the horizon as a storm approaches. Savute Marsh, Chobe National Park, Botswana..

Lightning strikes on the horizon as a storm approaches. Savute Marsh

Lightning, Africa, Sky

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Lightning Strike Over City

Rain, Istanbul, Storm

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Lightning Strike near Tucson

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A thunderstorm over the French Pyrenees

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Lightning strike

Grounds crew pull the tarp on the field as lightning from an approaching storm strikes in the distance during the third inning of a game between the...

Milwaukee Brewers v Cincinnati Reds - Game Two

Lightning, Baseball Strike, Cincinnati Reds

Lightning striking a peak in the La Sal Mountains, viewed from Arches National Park, Moab, Utah.

Lightning striking a peak in the La Sal Mountains, viewed from Arches National Park

Lightnings strike near the Christ the Redeemer statue at the Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on February 21, 2023.

TOPSHOT-BRAZIL-WEATHER-STORM-LIGHTNING-CHRIST THE REDEEMER

TopShot, Lightning, Rio de Janeiro

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Lightning Strike During Storm on Prairies

Lightning, Canada, Open

Lighting strikes through a fence and across a field as Tempest Tours storm chase tour guests watch a storm over the Great Plains in the United States...

Tornado, Oklahoma, Lightning

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Lightning Strike Over Lake Superior

Scenics - Nature, Lightning, Awe

July 2026, Brandenburg, Sieversdorf: During a thunderstorm, a blinding main flash strikes from a low-hanging cloud cover behind a row of trees,...

Multiple lightning strikes are seen during a summer nighttime thunderstorm near the city of Thessaloniki, reflected on the sea water, as seen from...

Lightning Thunderstorm In Greece

General view shows the Himalayas' Dhauladhar mountain range as lightning strikes across the sky above Dharamsala on May 13, 2026.

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Desert motel at night with lightning strike

Petrol Station, Lightning

Rain storm with multiple cloud-to-ground lightning flashes in the Tucson Mountains, Tucson, Arizona, USA, Medium Format film

Rain storm with multiple cloud-to-ground lightning flashes in the Tucson Mountains Tucson, Arizona, USA Medium Format film

Summer monsoon thunderstorm with cloud-to-ground lightning strikes and car and truck light trails in the foreground, West-central New Mexico, USA,...

A summer monsoon thunderstorm with cloud-to-ground lightning strikes and car and truck light trails in the foreground West-central New Mexico, USA Multiple Exposure

Lightning, Cloud - Sky, Multiple Exposure

Active storm cell over city with multiple cloud-to-ground lightning strikes along leading edge of the rain shaft, Tucson, Arizona, USA,

Active storm cell over city with multiple cloud-to-ground lightning strikes along leading edge of the rain shaft Tucson, Arizona, USA

Lightning, Storm Cloud

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Lightning Strike by the Sea

Tropical Climate, Monsoon, Horizon

Lightning strike hits the surrounding hills near Marsh Creek Road in Brentwood, Calif., on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020. A severe lightning storm caused...

Deer Zone Fire Complex

Lightning, California

Lightning strikes at a beach in Lhokseumawe, Northern Aceh, in Aceh province on May 25, 2022.

TOPSHOT-INDONESIA-WEATHER

TopShot, Bestpix, Lightning

Lightning strikes the ground as a violent thunder storm approaches the area August 16, 2004 in Ft. Myers, Florida. The town of Punta Gorda, located...

Thunder Storm Approaches Ft. Myers Florida

Lightning, Florida - US State

Lighting strikes through a fence and across a field as Tempest Tours storm chase tour guests watch a storm over the Great Plains in the United States...

Thunderstorm, Lightning, Great Plains

July 2026, Brandenburg, Sieversdorf: During a thunderstorm, a blinding main flash strikes from a low-hanging cloud cover behind a row of trees,...

Multiple lightning strikes are seen during a summer nighttime thunderstorm near the city of Thessaloniki, reflected on the sea water, as seen from...

Lightning Thunderstorm In Greece

Multiple lightning strikes are seen during a summer nighttime thunderstorm near the city of Thessaloniki, reflected on the sea water, as seen from...

Lightning Thunderstorm In Greece

Lightning strikes as monsoon season storms bring desert-nourishing rain to Southwestern deserts on August 17, 2024 near Page, Arizona. A shift in...

Monsoon Season In Arizona and Utah

Lightning is striking in front of the port of Barcelona, while a ship is sailing, in Barcelona, Spain, on August 14, 2024.

Lightning falls in front of the port of Barcelona

Flashes of lightning strike above the "Baie des Anges", on October 4 in Nice, southeastern France. AFP PHOTO / VALERY HACHE

TOPSHOT-FRANCE-WEATHER-STORM

Multiple lightning strikes, including a prominently forked cloud-to-ground discharge channel and another with a tortuous air discharge channel,...

Multiple lightning strikes, including a prominently forked cloud-to-ground discharge channel and another with a tortuous air discharge channel Northcentral New Mexico, USA Medium Format film

Overview of rain storm at sunset with rain curtains and cloud-to-ground lightning from a mature cumulonimbus cloud, Plains of San Agustin, New...

Overview of rain storm at sunset with rain curtains and cloud-to-ground lightning from a mature cumulonimbus cloud Plains of San Agustin, New Mexico, USA

Cumulonimbus, Lightning, Storm Cloud

Utility poles and lines silhouetted by a long exposure of active storm system producing multiple cloud-to-ground lightning discharges, Tucson,...

Utility poles and lines silhouetted by a long exposure of active storm system producing multiple cloud-to-ground lightning discharges Tucson, Arizona, USA

Lightning strikes behind a mountain as smoke bellows from a wildfire on a hillside on the outskirts of Shimla on March 7, 2023.

INDIA-ENVIRONMENT-FIRE

Shimla, Fire - Natural Phenomenon, Wildfire

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