Three closely spaced, deeply and intricately branched lightning discharges, in quick succession, divided the darkness and split the silence beyond a west Texas farmhouse. During a drought year, and in a part of the state usually thirsty of crop and livestock, the hazard posed by the lightning was worth the accompanying hundreds of square miles of beneficial rainfall relief.
1 SE Aspermont TX (7 May 23) Looking SSE
33.1284, -100.2141