Tree struck by lightening

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solidarity forever... ka-CHOW

Mother Nature knows !! (tw flashing & loud thunder bang)

"Just to note, this is not a fake, it was filmed by the photographer Zohaib Anjum: vertigodubai

"Last week over Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the ‘map of Palestine’ was formed due to lightning, thunder and severe storms hitting the UAE" from Land Palestine, 16/Mar/2024:

Francesco Gennari Photography

" Blue Jet" //© International Space Station

In 2019 The International Space Station spotted an exotic type of upside-down lightning called a blue jet (illustrated) zipping up from a thundercloud into the stratosphere ⚡️ ⠀⠀⠀ When storm clouds send lightning crackling in jagged streaks across the sky or produce a thundering bolt that strikes the ground, another otherworldly phenomenon sometimes erupts from the top of the clouds in a column of blue light firing toward space. These colorful flashes are called blue jets and they can stretch 30 miles into the stratosphere. ⠀⠀⠀ Blue jets can only be seen from the ground under rare circumstances because they’re brief and are typically obscured by clouds. But in 2019, instruments aboard the International Space Station (ISS) were able to record five blue flashes and a blue jet that shot into space from a storm cloud near the island of Nauru in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Via astro.voyagers