According to the National Weather Service, a bolt from the blue is a cloud to ground lightning strike which appears to come ...

An average lightning bolt contains enough energy to power a 100-watt light bulb for about three months. That’s like flipping on a switch and never needing to turn your lights off!

The lightning bolt is about the width of your thumb, as bright as a hundred million light bulbs, and five times as hot as the surface of the sun.

A lightning bolt strikes the sea near Fort St Elmo during ... The average lightning strike produces roughly 1,000 to 5,000 megajoules of energy—enough to power a 60-watt light bulb for over six ...