It begins with Guthrie travelling in a boxcar, and describes a Minnesota storm — "that bright crackling lightning that booms and zooms".
Last night was hot and sultry with bright white lightning, winking and flashing far away towards the East; now and then one heard (I was up about 2am to listen to it) a low growl of thunder and then the rain fell as a steady warm drip," he writes in Oh Beloved Kids: Rudyard Kipling's Letters to His Children, edited by Elliot Gilbert (1983).
Bright sunshine ; Summer lightning ; Serenade : from Renaissance / Lange-Müller.
The bright stars, sheet lightning and stories by the fireside.
I had a quick chat with Jamal from Russian rap group Triagrutrika, who told me, "I woke up, and my wife shouted 'It was a miracle!' I had no fucking clue what had happened, and she said, 'Everything was like lightning, brighter than the sun.' I didn't notice too much panic in the streets because people figured if it was a bomb that we'd already be dead.
The more than 100 other acts on the bill include Lauryn Hill, PJ Harvey, the Strokes, Animal Collective, the Black Keys, the Chemical Brothers, Best Coast, Brandon Flowers, Bright Eyes, Cee Lo Green, Gogol Bordello, Lightning Bolt, Nas and Damian Marley, the Swell Season, Scissor Sisters, Erykah Badu, the National, the New Pornographers and Titus Andronicus.
The bursts of lucidity that those with catastrophic memory loss can sometimes have are like bright, sharp flashes of lightning over a blasted landscape – or perhaps even that is wishful thinking and they signify nothing, are just the last random sparks thrown out from a dying mind.
When thunder snow occurs at night the lightning seems brighter - this is because the lightning reflects off the snowflakes.
