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Thanks to a Missouri drone wizard, a truly electrifying lightning storm over Missouri was captured on video and it's unlike any thunderstorm viewpoint you've ever seen.

If you've lived in Missouri for any length of time, you've no doubt seen a thunderstorm or two (or 1,000). But, I can almost guarantee that you've never seen a thunderstorm in Missouri that a plane passenger witnessed as they were aboard a plane ABOVE a storm.

I've heard it said that if you fail to learn history, you are doomed to repeat it. That's why it's important that we all know that the Missouri capital building has burned to the ground twice and for strange reasons.

Kaboom. If you were close enough to a Missouri highway vehicle, that would have been the deafening sound when lightning completely unloaded 200 million volts in a microsecond.

You think you've seen a lot of tornadoes in Illinois already in 2024, right? Well, you've never seen anything like what the world's worst time traveler just predicted. It's a twister set to hit in December that is powered by lightning and moves 800 mph. 1.21 Gigawatts!

We know that weather is tricky as there are so many variables that determine if a forecast is accurate. However, there is increasing confidence that Wisconsin is entering a danger zone of sorts with wind and lightning damage possible in parts of the state beginning Thursday.

We know that life can be dangerous. I will admit that I didn't know that Wisconsin was in so much jeopardy though until I saw 12 somewhat terrifying risk assessment maps from FEMA about potential natural disasters.

If you've ever tried to take a picture of lightning, you know it's difficult and potentially dangerous. One Wisconsin guy did it the safe and successful way and captured an incredible lighting display as it happened over southern Wisconsin just a few days ago.

Missouri has already had its fair share of thunderstorms and the pattern that has been prevalent the past couple of weeks doesn't look to change anytime soon. Missouri and especially the middle of the state is in the danger zone for a major lighting event soon.

Now that 2023 is completely in the rear view mirror now, the number of lightning strikes in Missouri can finally be tallied. Please forgive the lightning pun, but the total really is shocking.