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 twilight thunderhead with various forms of lightning
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  • A fork of cloud-to-air lightning (air discharge), a flash into clear sky
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  • A rare, wild erratic lightning path with many fine filaments
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  • Rare cloud-to-cloud lightning with closed loop at twilight
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  • Cloud flash, with intracloud lightning cloud-to-air filament
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  • Rare lightning loop with a closed and knotted path
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  • Rare ground-to-cloud lightning with upward branching
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  • A single, bright, positive lightning bolt discharges
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  • Torrents of rain glow with lightning and twilight in the mountains
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  • A knotted loop of cloud-to-air lightning terminates in the clear air
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  • Close-up of ribbon lightning bolt with multiple return strokes
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  • Untangling the mystery of a lightning path: a bizarre lightning flash
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  • An unusual knotted lightning air discharge twists erratically.
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  • A rare intensely bright superbolt lightning bolt strikes out of the blue
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  • A single, thick horizontal cloud-to-cloud lightning (intercloud flash)
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  • A brilliant, rare lightning superbolt with a positive charge strikes
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  • A lightning bolt which splits into many ground contact points
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  • Ribbon lightning: first return stroke sharp, the rest blurred by motion
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  • Brilliant lightning with an illuminated laminar wall cloud
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  • A menacing cloud-to-air lightning filament from a shelf cloud
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