I can't remember what day this happened last week, but if you were in Converse County, you had almost constant lightning one night. This guy captured a video of what the skies looked like.
Monday night a bear was killed in Woodland Park while climbing a tree during a lighting storm. Colorado Wildlife officials say the tree was struck by lightning while the bear was in it.
This is one of the craziest stories that I have ever heard about, and as I was reading it I just couldn't believe that things didn't turn out so much worse for this doctor who was struck by lightning and had no idea what had happened.
It's not exactly breaking news that Wyoming had a ton of lightning thanks to storms this week. That was especially true for the area around Clark that ended up with quite the lightning show in their skies.
This summer storm season has been one for the books in Wyoming. It hasn't been isolated to just one area either. We've had tornados, lightning storms, and hail storms all over Wyoming, the only thing we're missing are the locust!
We had one of our first true spring thunderstorms go through Casper this week and it was packing some spectacular lightning. If you're wondering how we grabbed some snaps, here's an easy way you can do it if you have an iPhone.