Lightning strikes across the sky during a thunderstorm in Montevideo early on November 18, 2023. (Photo by Mariana Suarez/AFP Photo)





A dirty thunderstorm occurs over Mount Sakurajima as the volcano erupts on October 24, 2023 in Kagoshima, Japan. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)





In this shot with slow shutter speed, lightning discharges in the evening sky during a heavy thunderstorm over the houses in the district of Sachsenhausen, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Wednesday, August 16, 2023. Heavy rain in parts of Germany caused flooding and led to dozens of flight cancelations at Frankfurt Airport, the country's busiest and a major European hub, authorities said Thursday. (Photo by Arne Dedert/dpa via AP Photo)





A picture taken on August 22, 2023 shows lightning over Mecca's clock tower in Saudi Arabia. Fierce storms closed schools on August 23 the desert kingdom's Mecca region, home to the holy Grand Mosque which was lashed by heavy rains and wind overnight, witnesses said. (Photo by Hammad Al-Huthali/AFP Photo)





Lightning strikes as smoke billows following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. The death toll from the unprecedented assault by Palestinian militant group Hamas on its territory rose to 900 in Israel, which has retaliated with a withering barrage of strikes on Gaza, raising the death toll there to 687. (Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP Photo)





The European Central Bank is pictured during a thunder storm in Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Sepember 12, 2023. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





This photograph taken on April 27, 2023 shows a lightning strike near the resident balling during a thunderstorm over the city of Kolkata in India. (Photo by Debajyoti Chakraborty/NurPhoto)





A vicious storm lights up on October 31, 2023 the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world at a cloud-nudging 829.8 metres. (Photo by Vertigodubai/Caters News Agency)





Lightning illuminates the sky above the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil on September 28, 2023. (Photo by Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)





Lightnings strike, illuminate the night sky in Istanbul, Turkiye on November 04, 2023. (Photo by Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A lightning bolt is seen in a rain curtain during a storm over Montevideo on November 7, 2023. (Photo by Mariana Suarez/AFP Photo)





The Rio Grande river flows South from the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge on September 30, 2023 in Taos County, New Mexico. An increasingly arid climate and growing population throughout New Mexico and Texas, has raised concerns about the severity, regularity and duration of naturally occurring droughts in the Southwest region of the United States. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)





A bolt of lightning stikes over the Golden Hind ship in Brixham Harbour, United Kingdom on September 17, 2023. (Photo by Chris Slack/Animal News Agency)





Flares are fired as lightening illuminates the sky during the Israeli military bombardment of the northern Gaza Strip on November 14, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. More than 11,000 people have been killed in relentless Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, since the war erupted after Palestinian militants raided southern Israel on October 7 killing at least 1200 people, according to official Israeli figures (Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP Photo)





A lightning strike lights up the sky during a rainstorm in the background of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) in Brasilia, Brazil, 28 September 2023. (Photo by Andre Borges/EPA)