By adamg - Wed, 08/08/2018 - 9:19pm

Down in his laboratory, in the basement of Cambridge City Hall, Dr. Frankenstein and Igor watched as the creature came to life: Read more.

By adamg - Sat, 08/04/2018 - 11:40pm

Herald photographer Mark Garfinkel was in Winthrop shortly before 10 p.m. when he captured quite the lightning strike over Yarmouth.

By adamg - Tue, 07/17/2018 - 6:38pm
By adamg - Sat, 09/30/2017 - 9:50am

KMV watched the sunriseshower over Boston Harbor this morning (see lightning over Nahant).

John got stuck in the parking lot that Rte. 1A in East Boston became due to flooding and a crash: Read more.

By adamg - Wed, 07/12/2017 - 8:54pm

Matt Frank watched from Chelsea as two lightning bolts hit Everett this evening.

By adamg - Tue, 06/27/2017 - 9:10pm

Tamas K-L captured the evening storm.

Jon Skarin watched the storm roll in: Read more.

By adamg - Sun, 08/14/2016 - 8:27pm

UPDATE, 8:44 p.m. Warning canceled for Boston, although it's kind of boomy and rainy here along the Roslindale/Hyde Park frontier.

Until 9 p.m.

CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY. LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURE`S LEADING KILLERS.

By adamg - Sun, 08/14/2016 - 10:48am

Roving UHub photographer Frank Kosiba spotted this reminder of the overnight thunderstorms on K Street in South Boston.

For a more immediate view of nature's fury, take a look at this amazing photo of lightning crashing down around Graves Light during one of the storms.

By adamg - Fri, 07/22/2016 - 9:42pm

Ed Grzyb watched lightning strike south of Roslindale around 9 p.m. in a storm that proved not to be a repeat of Monday's tree destroyer.

By adamg - Mon, 07/18/2016 - 5:05pm

Boom! That was some storm. Scattered outages in other areas in the city as well. Multiple trees came down on Maybrook Street in Dorchester.

Robin reports this tree came down at an entrance to Mt. Benedict Cemetery in West Roxbury, effectively trapping two people in a car in the cemetery: Read more.

By adamg - Sat, 06/18/2016 - 10:34am

John McLachlan captured some of the lightning last night, looking northeast from the South End.

Copyright John McLachlan. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

By adamg - Tue, 06/07/2016 - 9:06pm

Jonathan Berk captured a lightning bolt hitting Boston during tonight's storm.

Further south, Seth Gitell reported shortly before 9 p.m.:

Trees down along Furnace Brook in Quincy. Apparent flash flooding. Dangerous. I'm parked safely at gas station.

By adamg - Thu, 02/25/2016 - 6:17am

NECN reports. At 3:11 a.m., Patrick tweeted from the Back Bay:

Wow! I thought a plane crashed just now. Just thunder.

By adamg - Tue, 08/25/2015 - 10:00pm
By adamg - Tue, 08/18/2015 - 4:14pm

We came out of the Halfway Cafe on Washington Street in Dedham around 3:05 p.m. to the sound of thunder - even though it was still sunny overhead. But when we looked north, into Boston, we saw the city covered by an ominous cloud.

By adamg - Sat, 08/15/2015 - 11:16pm
By adamg - Sat, 08/15/2015 - 8:32pm

Violent thunderstorms moved across the Boston region this afternoon and evening, soaking some, giving others vivid lightning displays and rainbows, forcing the delay of a New England Revolution match at Gillette and turning the Natick commuter-rail station into the sort of raging water-filled arroyo you normally only expect to see after freak storms in a western desert: Read more.

By adamg - Fri, 08/07/2015 - 12:06pm

The Herald's Mark Garfinkel spent a good part of Tuesday chasing the four storms we had in the hopes of getting some good lightning shots. He succeeded - posts some photos and an explanation of how he did it.

Also see:
It was so windy even the lightning was blowing sideways.
We have a hailstone winner.
Oh, hail no!

By adamg - Tue, 08/04/2015 - 11:29pm

Tim Walsh captured some of the lightning over Boston Harbor during the afternoon storm.

By adamg - Tue, 01/13/2015 - 7:41am

This past Sept. 6, Greg C. took an awesome photo of a lightning storm over the Great Blue Hill.