Superbolts can be up to 100 times as powerful as a typical lightning strike and are a force with which to be reckoned. One such bolt on May 31, 2012, woke people in Tulsa with earthquake-like shaking.

Bolt from the Blue: Stronger, more lethal lightning bolts possible 10-20 miles from any rain by: Amanda Holly. Posted: Sep 8, 2021 / 08:58 AM EDT. Updated: Sep 8, 2021 / 08:58 AM EDT.

Lightning can strike on a crystal clear day without warning. They’re called “bolts from the blue.” These “bolts from the blue” are dangerously, unpredictable.

While the June 25, 2014 lightning viewed from D.C. that struck ground in Silver Spring may not have been a true bolt from the blue since some clouds were overhead, the surprise and danger are equal.

A high-speed camera run by the University of Florida's Lightning Research Laboratory caught an unusual bolt from the blue that zapped some trees in Gainesville on June 8, 2013.

What happens is this: A so-called bolt out of the blue (lightning on a clear, blue sky day) is actually a cloud-to-ground flash that occurs out of the backside of a thunderstorm cloud, according ...

It didn’t last a second but a blue jet flash shot out from the top of a thunderstorm and was filmed by a camera on the International Space Station (ISS).

A "bolt from the blue" is one of the most dangerous types of cloud to ground lightning because it happens without warning: a bolt that emerges from the side of a cloud that can travel through long ...