The Lightning Siege

There’s a whole lot of zapping going on

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You may remember a time when you’d never heard of firenadoes, heat domes, rain bombs (technically known as wet microbursts), atmospheric rivers, or pyrocumulonimbus clouds. Now we can add another new extreme event to our lexicon: the lightning siege.

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