Bruce the dog
By adamg - 9/9/23 - 4:30 pm

Update: Bruce found, reunited with family.

Boston and state first responders responded to the end of Southview Street in Dorchester, where a woman walking her dog suffered critical injuries when she was hit by lightning around 3:20 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 7/27/23 - 12:03 pm

Not just because of the heat, but because the National Weather Service says we can expect severe weather anytime through 8 p.m. or so, and that means: Read more.

Lightning over Chelsea
By adamg - 7/22/23 - 10:59 pm

Chelsea Scanner compiled video of last night's storming over Chelsea: Read more.

Phone message urging people to leave the Esplanade
By adamg - 7/4/23 - 6:21 pm

People with phones set up for emergency messages were warned this afternoon to leave the Esplanade as a line of thunderstorms approached south of Boston. State Police stopped letting people onto the Esplanade to reduce the number of people they might have to move out in a hurry had the heavy rain and lightning reached the Charles, which it didn't. Read more.

Lightning over Boston
By adamg - 6/14/23 - 9:19 pm

Hugmajesty captured some of the lightning over Allston this evening. Read more.

Lightning strike across Boston Harbor
By adamg - 8/26/22 - 4:52 pm

Boston Timelapse captured what appears to be a lightning strike at Logan from a National Park Service camera atop the Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown. Read more.

Storm lets loose over Nahant
By adamg - 8/7/22 - 9:47 pm

Joan was at Nahant Beach this afternon when the storm showed up and just burst right over her head. She managed to get a couple of good shots "just before we grabbed our stuff and made a mad dash for the car."

Chelsea Scanner watched the storm advance from Chelsea, and watched the lightning streak down in the direction of Everett and Somerville: Read more.

Storm at Forest Hills
By adamg - 7/27/21 - 8:31 pm

T. Anderson captured the vibe during the storm at Forest Hills.

Elsewhere, Channel 7 reporters didn't have to even venture outside to get some news, lightning crashed and trees fell across the Boston area. Read more.

By adamg - 7/1/21 - 1:08 am

Sutherlabs used slow-motion capture to grab a video of some of last night's lightning show, in Brookline, looking northwest: Read more.

By adamg - 7/5/20 - 10:41 pm

felly fel captured the approaching storm tonight: Read more.

Lightning over East Boston
By adamg - 6/28/20 - 8:22 pm

John in Eastie watched some impressive lightning from East Boston shortly after 8 p.m.

He took another shot shortly before 9 p.m., of a bolt possibly hitting in Cambridge: Read more.

Lightning hitting downtown Boston
By adamg - 6/6/20 - 5:06 pm

John in Eastie watched the storm rumble across downtown; reports it looks like Zeus got a direct hit on International Place.

Lightning hits Back Bay
By adamg - 7/17/19 - 6:10 pm

Around 5:40 p.m. Sheila watched lightning strike.

Matthew Ireland got some video: Read more.

Ominous cloud
By adamg - 7/17/19 - 5:54 pm

Muerl got an ominous view on North Beacon Street in Brighton during the second of this afternoon's storms. Read more.

By adamg - 7/6/19 - 9:50 pm

Caught in Southie has the video from the Columbia Yacht Club during this afternoon's storm.

Storm over downtown Boston
By adamg - 7/6/19 - 6:45 pm

Jonathan Berk enjoyed the drop in humidity that the storm brought to downtown Boston.

Up at Revere Beach, Marianna McCormick was among those forced to seek shelter from the storm: Read more.

Lightning hits Boston
By adamg - 6/29/19 - 4:17 pm

Jonathan Berk captured a major lightning bolt around 4 p.m.

The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning until 5 p.m.for parts of the Boston area, including the Back Bay.

By adamg - 6/29/19 - 9:35 am

Joe LaRusso reports the storm, which moved in around 7 a.m., knocked out power to roughly 2,700 homes and businesses in Roslindale and West Roxbury.

Storm over Dorchester
By adamg - 9/6/18 - 4:52 pm

C. Carew looked out the window at Kosciusko Circle in Dorchester around 4:45 p.m., about when the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Boston.

Lightning hits a building under construction in Boston
By adamg - 8/17/18 - 7:10 pm

Matthew Ireland happened to snap a photo on his iPhone at just the right instant to get a lightning bolt heading to the ground this evening, only getting interrupted by the tower under construction in front of the Garden.