Thunderstorm Thread

[RCMerchant]

^ It stormed last night for hours. I didn't watch TV or listen to music.
It's supposed to be up to 95 F. where I am today. And I live in a swamp. It's gonna be muggy.

[claws]

We had two thunderstorms last week, and we are currently having one right now (11:38 pm). It's more like distant thunder, a few lightning flashes and not much rain.
According to forecast more is expected on Friday and Saturday.

[ER]

The region where we live has had virtually no storms this year and no severe ones at all. There have been a few threats of them but no follow-through, and I'm not sure I trust that.... The last time I remember a stormless spring was 1993, and the summer exploded with one destructive thunderstorm after another day after day for what felt like weeks. My cousin and I came back from seeing Jurassic Park in a hailstorm with winds so high she barely kept her car in the road and when we got to my house we went to the basement. In a big urban forest park near the city a microburst that June with 130 mph straight-line winds destroyed almost every tree, including its famous century-old pines in a twenty-acre stand donated to the city at its centennial by a German prince in 1888. The huge stumps are still there slowly turning into soil, and I've gone and climbed up onto them many times these last thirty years, right after it happened I went with my future boyfriend and more recently with my children. So, hey, I wouldn't be surprised if Mother Nature evened things out by giving us a violent stormy high summer, because the Ohio Valley simply can't be getting off this lightly.

[RCMerchant]

We had some on Sunday. It was glorious!