thunder and lightning

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The Englishman said the incident occurred after he went right off the tee on the 18th hole at Wentworth just as play was suspended for more than 90 minutes because of thunder and lightning.

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2025

Harbaugh indeed arrived as a mixture of thunder and lightning, both charming and disarming Thursday’s crowd with a mesh of motivation and eccentricity all soaked in old-school pigskin talk.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2024

Warm temperatures allow the atmosphere to hold more humidity, and that humidity is a prerequisite for building clouds—specifically, the tall, menacing cumulonimbus clouds that produce thunder and lightning.

From National Geographic • Sep. 12, 2023

It warned of so-called dry storms - thunder and lightning without rainfall - in many parts of the country.

From Reuters • Aug. 9, 2023

For a while the only sound is the rain drumming against the log cabin with the random rumbles and cracks of thunder and lightning.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas