The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a person’s sense of chance, of fate?

Lightning-sparked fires can be a big deal: The Canadian wildfires of 2023 generated nearly 500 million metric tons of carbon emissions, and lightning-started fires burned 93% of the area affected.

Lightning sparked almost 60% of the wildfires—and those blazes accounted for 93% of the total area burned.

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Lightning users are swift and destructive. These characters represent some of the best lightning users in anime.

Ultraviolet cameras captured faint electrical flashes from leaves and branches as storm charges built up in the atmosphere.