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Aurora substorm visible from Rapid City, SD last night around 1030 pm 7/3/26. Sony A7s iii , 20 mm, f/2.8, iso3200, 3.2 sec

21% of lightning fatalities in the last 20 years occurred when people were fishing, at the beach, or boating. If you’re engage in one of those activities, stay aware of your surroundings and go to a safe place when thunderstorms move in. When thunder roars, go indoors!

This is just a beautiful animation of the 5 lightning injury mechanisms. Great work to the @reuters.com graphics team.

It's amazing that more people aren't injured or killed by lightning each year - and we already see around 25,000 fatalities and 250,000 injuries around the world each year! It doesn't matter where you are: When thunder roars, go indoors! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvy3...

Most people who are struck by lightning survive. They don’t carry an electric charge, so if you see someone who is struck by lightning, call 9-1-1 and begin first aid immediately.

In the last 20 years, only 3 of 517 U.S. lightning fatalities occurred when a person was in a substantial building or fully enclosed metal vehicle. This is why we say "When thunder roars, go indoors!" When you're inside, avoid contact with plumbing or plugged-in devices.

#LSAW26: No place outside is safe during a thunderstorm, but there are some activities that result in more injuries and fatalities than others. These twelve activities contributed most to US lightning fatalities in the last 20 years. In these situations, you're generally isolated and exposed.

#LSAW26: Want to know a little more about how thunderstorms and lightning develop? Check this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HgO...

As we always like to do at the beginning of Lightning Safety Awareness Week (#LSAW26), here’s a spelling lesson. We are talking about lightning this week. We hope we are lighting your way to lightening your concerns about being safe around lightning.

Today is the first day of Lightning Safety Awareness Week. It’s also Father’s Day. Share your favorite lightning puns and dad jokes. I’m positive this will be a hit. If you don’t find this current attempt at engagement to be funny, you’re grounded.

Volnado hits the east camera. Thinking that would hurt.

Episode 49 producing an impressive volnado.

Three people were killed by lightning across the street from the White House on August 4, 2022. Roughly 4,300 people will be at the UFC event tonight, with a 85,000 tickets allotted for a watch party at the Ellipse. Hopefully there’s a plan in place to get all of them to safe places.

We did some science last night! (Phased-Array Polarimetry for Electrification and Lightning)

Pleased to announce a new Lightning Safety Guide for Sports and Outdoor Events! NLSC members worked with CISA and NCS4 to develop this guide. www.cisa.gov/sites/defaul...

A meteor streaked through the sky above western New York earlier this morning.

Two years ago...A Night Like No Other at Devils Tower, Wyoming www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvSo...

Tried to catch the rainbow and lightning photobombed my iPhone shot. #WXsky #ILwx

A lightning-packed line of storms charges across Kansas this afternoon.

Craziest story you'll read today, even as America's TV news networks fall over themselves to strike deals with Polymarket and Kalshi and present their data as newsworthy. The world has gone mad. finance.yahoo.com/markets/cryp...

Big bolts delivering some Friday Night Lights. ⚡️⚡️ #ILWx #Chicago

NOAA GOES 18 weather satellite’s Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument detected the atmospheric re-entry of NASA’s Artemis II Orion capsule over the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and southern California just before 23:56 GMT — too cool! #ArtemisII #NASA #NOAA

Imagine being in space 30 min ago and now you’re about an hour from In n Out

Things that work: giant rocket, very precise math, orbital mechanics, cameras, iPhones Things that don’t work: Microsoft Outlook, toilets, sat phones

Bright meteor/bolide west of Rapid City, SD at 8:24 pm MDT last evening (Apr 8th) captured by 2 observatory cameras. Double bright flashes prior to decay. youtu.be/LFEKBz_paIc

There are 4 astronauts on the other side of the Moon right now unable to contact or hear anything from Earth. They are the luckiest people in the universe.

New post about the most spectacular upward lightning flash I have witnessed and what you can see in the 9 min long high-speed recording of the 0.6 second flash. ztresearch.blog/2026/04/04/a...

What A Blast! 906pm on Thursday over Chicago. All that lightning in one moment...this is one image.

I do appreciate a good rumble before the heaviest of the precip reaches the area

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

The Canary Islands enveloped in dust as waves and vortices swirl off of them. A fascinating, complex view.

An 800+ mile long haboob sweeping across northwest Africa. My oh my...

I have created a video lecture series called Understanding Lightning. It is a 9 part series using high-speed video, animations and electromagnetic data plots to explain lightning physical processes. No AI, just a simple lecture format. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_U...

Another great video from Greg Leyh. This shows why most high-voltage labs don't usually incorporate high current in their tests for safety reasons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoGb...

Wall, South Dakota Mar 20th 1030 pm MT

I slowed down the lightning initiation video and it’s clearly an upward strike. These ~5 frames taken from a 240fps clip represent about 20 milliseconds in real time. All this with a handheld cameraphone 🤯

64.4 mph peak wind at my house in west Rapid City, SD last night. 4 trees down. Numerous pine trees down in the neighborhood with roof damage to at least 3 homes.

57 mph peak wind gust at my house in west Rapid City, SD at 1035 am, Dec 17th, 2025 (MST), 1735 UT.

Visualization of the Geminid meteor shower as seen from western South Dakota. youtu.be/E6TI9WoMCaM

Global Meteor Network detected meteor image stacks from last night. All 4 of these cameras are located in western South Dakota.

Lightning hitting a transformer near West, TX — notice the green glow? 645p CST #TXwx

Thank you all for the hundreds of photo submissions! You can still submit your suspected FAE images to [email protected] for science purposes. If you want to be more confident that what you captured is indeed an FAE and not proton aurora, see the flier attached here.

This is really cool to watch. Volcano and Tephranado dance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA9Q...

If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey. This isn’t controversial. A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.

BÓLIDO ESPORÁDICO ROZADOR #SPMN161125 SOBRE LAS PROVINCIAS DE #ÁVILA Y #SEGOVIA HOY a las 0h36m55s TUC (1h36 CET). Lo captó desintegrándose lentamente nuestro compañero Miguel A. Furones @mafurones.bsky.social acabando su trazo sobre la #Liebre y #CanMayor. Al listado www.ice.csic.es/news/citizen...

Live view looking South West from Rapid City, SD www.youtube.com/live/BCxK1QV...

Red aurora visible from Montauk, NY 755 pm ET (0055 UT, Nov 12th)