thunder and lightning
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The storms have brought significant thunder and lightning but generally have been accompanied by light rainfall, a tenth of an inch or less.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2025
This cloud can develop quickly, bringing with it rain, thunder and lightning.
From BBC • Oct. 9, 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
Their longing for them was great enough to make them never give up laboring to see them clearly, until at last the thunder and lightning were changed into the Universal Father.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
