When 38-year-old Daniel Modøl went outside to film a distant storm he didn’t expect it would get so close. He was safely standing on his terrace in Gjerstad, Aust-Agder, Norway and shooting lightning bolts flashing in the area. Nature, however, had planned something more. While still in his

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vZdg2_Cg38 I grew around the supposed ‘Lightning Capital of the World’ region, the greater Tampa Bay area of Florida. I’m no stranger to lightning. Once while we were out on my boat back in college I waited too long to head in with a storm approaching and we were

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUIpltFo_fg The worst thing about lightning storms is arguing with my kids over who gets to hid under the dining room table. They always assume I’ll choose them over myself. Professor Ningyu Liu at the Geospace Physics Laboratory caught this beautiful lightning show