An Incredible Photo of Lightning Striking the Spire of One World Trade Center in New York City

Scott Beale
July 18, 2018

A post shared by WeatherGoingWILD (@weathergoingwild) on Jul 17, 2018 at 4:32pm PDT

Storm chaser Michael Koch of Weather Going Wild shot an incredible photo of lightning striking the spire of One World Trade Center during a recent storm in NYC. He also captured slow motion video of the strike.

A post shared by WeatherGoingWILD (@weathergoingwild) on Jul 17, 2018 at 4:08pm PDT

– A weather photo that had eluded me for far too long! #Lightning striking the #FreedomTower in #NYC earlier today… #manhattan pic.twitter.com/cclmaZgyYM

— WeatherGoingWILD (@WeatherGoinWILD) July 17, 2018

Scott Beale

Scott Beale founded Laughing Squid in 1995 in San Francisco and is currently based in New York City. When not running the blog, Scott can be found posting on Threads and sharing photos on Instagram.