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LillyBoPeep -> Thunderstorms (6/16/2011 10:08:53 PM)
who else enjoys a good thunderstorm? as a life-time midwestern girl (with a few intermittent visits elsewhere) thunderstorm season was always one of my favorite times of the year. best time for observing various types of complex cloud formations, too. towering anvil clouds, skies turning red, then green, then red again, it's a spectacular time of the year. so chat about weather! this is a "meteorological discussion zone." ^_^

LinnaeaBorealis -> RE: Thunderstorms (6/16/2011 10:27:41 PM)
I love wild weather of any kind, but especially thunderstorms. I remember one day driving the big truck, crossing eastward through Wyoming & seeing the lightning storms up ahead & getting excited, wondering when I would be in them. Sometimes I'd see the storms & they'd outrun me, but this particular day, I watched it for miles & miles & finally just as I crossed from Wyoming into Nebraska, I was in it! I had a co-driver who was sleeping in the bunk behind the curtain. And lightning struck just a few feet off the right front bumper of the truck & the thunder was the loudest I've ever heard in my life!! I started laughing it was so fuckin cool!!! And Jeff came out of the bunk yelling, "What happened???" He said it sounded & felt like the tire right behind the bunk had blown. I love the way the sky will change colors, sometimes becoming a greenish yellow & the way the clouds pick up & diffuse the colors from the sun. I love how sometimes in the midwest, there can be sheet lightning mixed with bolt lightning. And how sometimes with the big crash of thunder the rain comes down in huge drops. This is one reason I love living in the midwest now: the wild weather!!!

littlewonder -> RE: Thunderstorms (6/16/2011 10:36:15 PM)
I love thunderstorms at night. The sound of the rain pelting the windows and roof, the thunder and cracks of lightning all seem to put me right to sleep. When I'm having a particularly difficult time sleeping I will put a thunderstorm sound on my computer to play for a few hours. I also like light rainshowers on a very warm day and just walking in it, especially on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

FelineFae -> RE: Thunderstorms (6/16/2011 10:38:22 PM)
i enjoy storms at any point of the day. Storms mean no sun-light. [:)]

LillyBoPeep -> RE: Thunderstorms (6/16/2011 10:46:25 PM)
you know one of the weirdest storms i saw back home; it was the beginning of april, bright gleaming sun peeking through scattered clouds, and huge chunks of snow were falling as fast as i'd ever seen snow fall. =p it was bizarre. i made a video of it, but now i can't seem to find it. i like to watch the progress of storms so i like when they come by during the day (i love when it's so dark the street lights come on at 3 p.m. =p) but i also like hunkering down with a blankie and listening to them at night.

FelineFae -> RE: Thunderstorms (6/16/2011 10:49:09 PM)
i miss mon-soons. Girls in high boots and tiny little skirts, soldiers breaking their legs in turtle-ditches...

LinnaeaBorealis -> RE: Thunderstorms (6/17/2011 1:37:11 AM)
One day in Cle Elum, WA, which is on the Eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains, I was standing outside talking to the neighbor. The sun was shining bright as can be & the sky was completely blue, not a cloud, nothing. And it started snowing. We both marveled at that. I still have no clue where that snow came from.

VaguelyCurious -> RE: Thunderstorms (6/17/2011 2:45:15 AM)
My grandfather was struck by lightning once. I have no wish to follow in his footsteps. The closest I've come is a tree the other side of the road from me getting hit. Was skeery. I think it would have caught fire if it wasn't so heavily soaked. I like thunderstorms when I'm inside.

LaTigresse -> RE: Thunderstorms (6/17/2011 3:44:16 AM)
I love love LOVE thunderstorms! One of the things I love best about my home, it sits on a hill over looked a beautiful valley. We have huge windows so that we can actually SEE the view. One day, just before we moved, I was here with the dogs, taking out the carpet and painting. It was in April and one of our fabulous wild spring storms moved in. I was so excited to be able to see the front moving in across the horizon. It really is just awesome here. We've watched tornadoes forming miles away. I used to think that we had the market cornered on wild thunderstorms, hell, we even get thunder snow storms sometimes in the winter. BUT you just haven't experienced a wild thunderstorm until you've experienced one up high in the Rockies. Holy Mary Jesus and Joseph that will send even some of the heartiest folks running for cover. Something to do with the combination of high altitude and the minerals in the mountains make for some of the wildest and craziest lightening EVER.

windchymes -> RE: Thunderstorms (6/17/2011 8:23:29 AM)
Love 'em. We had some good ones last night, great for sleeping! When I was growing up out on the farm, when t-storms were brewing, I used to stand out in the yard or the fields with a camera, hoping to see a funnel cloud. Never did, tho. Storms on the beach are pretty awesome, too, just you and mother nature having a tizzyfit. [:)]

pahunkboy -> RE: Thunderstorms (6/17/2011 9:42:53 AM)
I like thunder storms... lately tho- I get abit nervous when I see a dark sky- being that tornadoes took out whole houses and blocks this year. Also I prefer to not lose power. But the rain in general does not bother me. I prefer it to 100 degree humidity.

needlesandpins -> RE: Thunderstorms (6/17/2011 10:03:26 AM)
fr thunderstorms are great, they scare me and thrill me all at the same time. i think sometimes we can take our little planet for granted and then mother nature reminds us of just how tiny we humans are. i like being tucked up in bed listening to the thunder roll across the sky. if i'm snuggled in bed with someone that's even better. needles

soul2share -> RE: Thunderstorms (6/17/2011 10:07:05 AM)
I love to watch them move in......and I could listen to them for days. I love the booms that are so loud, or so close, that you can actually FEEL the concussion from them. I'd never really experienced that until I was in Phoenix, during the monsoon season. One night, I was sleeping, and one went off right overhead. It set off every car alarm in the area, and I swear, I felt it even inside in my bed. I thought the cats were going to have a heart attack, all 4 of us jumped bolt upright from a very sound sleep. It was sooooo cooool! I used to sit on the beach at home and watch them move in across Lake Ontario. Once, lightning hit the beach about 1/2 mile away, and I felt the tingle thru the wet sand....decided I might be better off under the pavilion for that one! All my hair was standing on end from that one. Or I'd crawl out onto the roof at home. Saw my neighbor's pool get hit, and decided to hike my ass back indoors! That's definitely one time that "close up and personal" ain't what you want! Living in tornado alley was skeery sometimes. I'd stay indoors for those storms.....no sense tempting fate. But one night, the sirens went off, and as I'm grabbing the dog, cat and the phone and heading for the bathroom, I happened to glance out the windows, and eveyone was coming outside to see what was happening! Duh......a small funnel cloud touched down about 500 yards from my apartment building. Very minor damage, mostly to trees, but still.....that's close enough for me!

Hillwilliam -> RE: Thunderstorms (6/17/2011 11:15:08 AM)
Thunderstorms go best with some OLD (Pre Dark side) Pink Floyd cranked LOUD.

LillyBoPeep -> RE: Thunderstorms (6/17/2011 1:31:29 PM)
i love how they can just blow up out of nowhere. the closest i've ever come to a tornado happened when i moved up here to NE. i literally drove through the bottom half of one that was trying to connect up but couldn't. it was bizarre. but that whole storm appeared so suddenly, it took so many people by surprise. no one had locked up their shopping carts, so the carts were flying all over the road. probably the scariest storm i've ever personally experienced. i miss hunkering down in the bathtub or the hallway with my family, like we did when i was a kid, and listening to the radio while the power went out and hail and tree limbs crashed down. i dunno, i love that stuff. =p

LaTigresse -> RE: Thunderstorms (6/17/2011 1:34:05 PM)
I am one of those crazy people that go outside to look for them. On my dead external hard drive are some awesome photos of baby tornadoes.

needlesandpins -> RE: Thunderstorms (6/17/2011 1:50:30 PM)
i'm reading about your freaky American weather and chuckling to myself that some of us brits get excited by the mearest hint of a twister here. it's usually just the start of a funnel in the clouds that rarely amounts to anything but can still make national news lol needles

LaTigresse -> RE: Thunderstorms (6/17/2011 2:40:19 PM)
Yes, in Iowa we have some really crazy weather compared to a lot of places. I remember when I was a kid, my parents had some friends visiting from California. They were born and bred Californians. The first time they had been to Iowa, a few years before, had been in January. January here can really suck ass. Cold, like below zero F. cold and that is not taking into consideration for wind chill. We get wind chill advisories of -20F to even -40F. And it's often time gray for days. You begin to wonder if the sun exists. So they decided that the next time they visited it would be in June or July. Coming from the LA area of California, they assumed it would be cooler here in Iowa due to the winter they had experienced a few years before but........not winter, so warmer. Our house had no AC. It is not unheard of for us to have several weeks of highs above 100F. And I remember one year we had a week solid where it did not dip below 100F. Which one used to the southwest might say something like..........'Pfffffft, that's nothing!" Until you toss in some 70-80% humidity and bloodthirsty mosquitoes. (those here in the more mid and eastern south totally get what I am saying, it's worse for them). Those LA dwellers were MISERABLE. Then, one night, we had a typical early summer thunderstorm. Sirens going off, things turning that funky weird green outside, the barometric pressure going all freaky. Crazy wild winds, then that creepy dead stillness that tells you to hang onto your ass cuz the shit is fixing to hit the fan. I thought that woman was going to shit herself. To her, an earthquake was nothing but a little old Iowa thunderstorm was the end of the world. They seriously could not believe the dramatic difference between January and June. They were sure it must just be a freak year. Nope, it's normal for here.

needlesandpins -> RE: Thunderstorms (6/17/2011 3:03:46 PM)
your seasons pretty much sound on a par with ours here in yorkshire. where i live is on the side of a sheltered valley, although it doesn't appear that way, and so is a little more protected compared to some parts of yorkshire. still, we can have all four seasons in one day. it's supposed to be Flaming June, as they call it, right now, but it's been wonderful summer in the mornings and winter by the evening. mind you, the whole of britain still grinds to a holt if we get an inch of snow! needles

TheHeretic -> RE: Thunderstorms (6/17/2011 9:03:05 PM)
I love thunderboomers. Our season for them, here in the desert, won't start for at least a few more weeks. We can, and sometimes do, get little funnel clouds that will rip out trees and sheds, but the storms just aren't on the midwest scale. Having encountered a few of those, I'm ok with the desert variety. My old place out in the desert was great. I could sit out in the front yard and watch the clouds build in the distance all afternoon, and then the light show, as they would march off into the night. I don't have the grand vista from this house, but there is a covered deck, and we'll sit outside in the wind and rainspray when one passes through.

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