Rare and unusual: Stock photos of rare. strange, peculiar or visually unusual lightning examples such as loops, beaded, or ribbon. Unusual forms and shapes of lightning types or flashes plus exceptional scenes are highlighted here.

  • Rare superbolt lightning, bright and with hard, loud thunder
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  • A boiling cloud with rare cloud-to-air lightning filament air discharge
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  • A flash of rare horizontal lightning dangles over a discharge bolt
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  • Spangled fingers of spider lightning sprawl in the night sky
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  • A splitting lightning strike, caused when leader encounters air change
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  • Jagged forking lightning follows erratic path of ionizing stepped leader
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  • Erratic lightning suggests the dangers of being struck by lightning
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  • Four bolts, one very bright, demonstrate lightning behavior
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  • Lightning strikes “out of the blue”, out from the back of a storm
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  • Unusual lightning, erratic with branching
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  • Lightning, out of the blue, as one bolts reaches out from the storm
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  • Mesocyclone at night, lit up by lightning
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  • In-cloud lightning with an air discharge (cloud-to-air)
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  • Rare ground-to-cloud lightning, branching upward
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  • Rare cloud-to-air lightning dangles its tentacles in the sky
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  • Ribbon lightning filaments with parallel channels
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  • Close-up of rare ribbon lightning filament (parallel channels)
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  • Rare beaded lightning bolt (bead lightning) in a hayfield in daylight
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  • Horizontal lightning with bolts over city
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