Lightning strikes over the French Riviera city of Nice, Southern France, on September 5, 2022. (Photo by Valery Hache/AFP Photo)





The 15th-century Castello di Torrechiara in Parma, Italy, was at the centre of a dramatic thunderstorm on August 13, 2024. (Photo by Alberto Ghizzi Panizza/Animal News Agency)





Lightning strikes behind Papago Park in Arizona’s Maricopa County on Thursday, August 8, 2024. (Photo by Michael Chow/The Arizona Republic/USA Today Network)





Lightning is striking in front of the port of Barcelona, while a ship is sailing, in Barcelona, Spain, on August 14, 2024. (Photo by Urbanandsport/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Lightning strikes over the French Riviera city of Nice, Southern France, on September 5, 2022. (Photo by Valery Hache/AFP Photo)





A general view of a rainbow and a lightning strike during a rain delay in the second inning between the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves on August 26, 2024 at Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images)





Lightning strikes after a sever storm passes through over Chicago, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. (Photo by Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Chicago Sun-Times via AP Photo)





A lightning bolt strikes One World Trade Center in lower Manhattan during a thunderstorm in New York City on August 3, 2024, as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)





Lightning strikes as monsoon season storms bring desert-nourishing rain to Southwestern deserts on August 17, 2024 near Page, Arizona. A shift in wind direction from westerly to southerly typically triggers the American Southwest monsoon season by mid-June, and continuing through September, bringing storms of often-spectacular cloudbursts that produce widespread flash floods and dangerous lightning. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)





A lightning strikes the ground behind a building during a thunderstorm in Milan, Italy on August 7, 2024. (Photo by Daniele Mascolo/Reuters)





Lightnings strike above the domes of the churches of the Kremlin of Suzdal, in Russia, on August 23, 2024. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Lightning illuminates the sky above the Sacre Coeur basilica during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Paris, France on August 1, 2024. (Photo by Stefan Wermuth/Reuters)





Multiple lightning strikes are seen in this 66 image composite taken over 1.5 hours during a monsoon in Bangkok, Thailand which took place overnight from October 29th to October 30th, 2024. The monsoon season in Bangkok normally lasts from July to October, making this one of the year's last major storms to hit the Thai capital. (Photo by Adryel Talamantes/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A Lightning bolt strikes during a thunderstorm in Toluca, Mexico on August 27, 2024. (Photo by Mario Vazquez/AFP Photo)





This photograph shows lightning striking over the French Riviera city of Nice, Southerneast France, on August 14, 2024. (Photo by Valery Hache/AFP Photo)