What looks like hundreds of lightning strikes falling together isn’t chaos — it’s a mature storm system unloading years of built-up imbalance in minutes. Inside those clouds, rising warm air and sinking cold air separate electric charge layer by layer. When the difference becomes too great, the sky stops holding it. Lightning doesn’t “strike” randomly here. It takes the fastest paths available, branching toward the ocean and the city below where the electrical contrast is strongest. Each bolt la