Electrifying pictures of lightning and thunderstorms

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A sunflower field is seen in stormy weather near Donzere, southern France, August 5, 2011.
REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

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Lightning strikes as Mount Merapi volcano erupts spewing out towering clouds of hot gas and debris, as seen from Ketep village in Magelang,
Indonesia's Central Java province, November 6, 2010. REUTERS/Beawiharta

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Lightning strikes in Poyang county in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, July 20, 2010.
REUTERS/Aly Song

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Lightning is seen above buildings during a storm in central Shanghai, August 11, 2011.
REUTERS/Aly Song

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Lightning is seen during a storm under the Memorial Center in Potocari the night before a mass burial, near Srebrenica, Bosnia, July 10, 2012.
REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

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Lightning flashes around the ash plume above the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain near Entrelagos, Chile, June 5, 2011.
REUTERS/Carlos Gutierrez

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Lightning strikes over buildings during a thunderstorm in Belgrade, June 8, 2011.
REUTERS/Marko Djurica

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Apr 19, 2000 Bead lightning: Resembling pearls on a string, it is merely a particular aspect of normal lightning seen when the observer happens to view a.
Nearly every lightning discharge will exhibit 'beading' as the channel cools immediately after a return stroke, sometimes referred to as the lightning's 'bead-out'.

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Ribbon lightning occurs in thunderstorms with high cross winds

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Ribbon lightning strikes a tree in poland

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Bead lightning is lightning which appears to break up into a string of beads

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Forked Lightning

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