They'd worked through heavy rains, but now large lightning bolts began hitting the area.
The earthquake last August would not have been covered by most renter policies, but damage from routine weather events — wind, rain, heavy snow, lightning — typically is.
By mid-afternoon, conditions around the volcano included pitch darkness, falling ash and pumice lumps as large as 4 cm (1.6 inches) in diameter, high winds and heavy rain, lightning flashes, and earthquakes.
The accident occurred on a night of some heavy rain, lightning and thunder.
Cumulus mediocris clouds are similar, except that they have some vertical development, which implies that they can grow into cumulus congestus or even cumulonimbus clouds, which can produce heavy rain, lightning, severe winds, hail, and even tornadoes.
Yet even as rainstorms helped firefighters douse the smoldering mountain resort town, which attracts 11 million tourists a year, they brought new threats to the drought-afflicted Southeast: mudslides, heavy winds, lightning, flooding, even tornadoes.
All of Zambia was blacked out Wednesday evening after heavy rains and lightning compounded by an earlier landslide crippled the nation's power-generating grid.
Hail, heavy rain, wind, lightning - it seems safe to say Everton will attempt to dispose of lower league opposition in conditions somewhat different to the balmy sunshine enjoyed by Liverpool on the south coast earlier today.
When shooting resumed — Wright kneeling over Murray, delivering phantom elbows to his head, over and over — a cooling wind blew in, followed soon by a heavy downpour, and lightning.
With heavy downpours and lightning Friday night canceling the card after the first race, the $650,000 Woodrow Wilson for two-year-old pacing colts and the $460,000 Sweetheart for two-year-old fillies were also staged this afternoon.
