Thunderstorms

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RETROVERTIGO

Monday, March 13, 2006 9:00 AM

A sign that spring is on its way, we had our first thunderstorm tonight.

Personally, I love them. My favorite kind of weather, outside of a nice hot, sunny day. Maybe it's because it brings back memories of my childhood, when an especially strong storm would knock out power and we'd light candles and read stories.

Anyone else have an affinity for thunderstorms?

CHINDI

Monday, March 13, 2006 9:02 AM

Don't really get them here in CA but love them.. have been in some doozies in Boston and Texas..

magic they are... and humbling.

Chindi

SINGATE

Monday, March 13, 2006 9:08 AM

Hell yes! I grew up in Illinois and we would have the most spectacular storms in the springtime. The sky would turn colors that I have never seen anywhere else. We would also get some good size hail which I thought was so cool when I was a kid. Invariably every bad storm would lead to a tornado warning, luckily we never got hit.

What I miss even more is snow. Living in NC we don't get any accumulation. This year I didn't even see any snow! Oh well, at least I can golf year round.

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ARCADIA

Monday, March 13, 2006 9:28 AM

Yes, Illinois thunderstorms are pretty awesome. We have been having them all weekend. Today we even had a tornado watch... I think it touched town in the next town, poor them. One of the sweetest things I have even seen in my life: I was walking from the quad to my dorm (I go to the university of illinous, champaign-urbana) and its getting ready to rain. The sky is this amazing, cloudy purple that I have never seen before or since and it frames the tall, manor-like looking buildings of the south quad, right behind the undergrad library... I felt like I was in a strange fantasy book, it was awesome. Second coolest: Last fall, we had the most amazing pink/purple sunset you have ever seen. The pink... it was so bright, it was nearly neon, and the purple was a bright, but sort of deep, indio-ish color. I love Illinois when it is about the rain :-) And then, I love it when it does rain. I like walking around in it. It feels refreshing. I got so soaked this weekened.

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THESOMNAMBULIST

Monday, March 13, 2006 9:55 AM

Yup! Love a good thunderstorm.

Used to have spectacular ones in Paraguay, where I grew up as a kid. They were fantastic! A proper light show! Because Paraguay is quite a flat country you could see the storms approach in the distance - used t be amazing!

Here in the uk, they're not as spectacular but they're ok :) Usually they come after a really hot day... and y'know it being the uk....we have like two of those....so...

The best thunderstorm I ever saw was when I was flying to the Canary Islands. It was a night flight and as we flew over Jersey we could see the clouds below light up all around us! It was incredible to see. Turbulent shaped clouds below just swelling with light and edgey beams of lightening shooting out like eager tentacles all around us as we flew over. It was something I've never forgoten. Truely wonderous.

I'd love to see something like that again.

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RETROVERTIGO

Monday, March 13, 2006 10:05 AM

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Originally posted by singate:
Hell yes! I grew up in Illinois and we would have the most spectacular storms in the springtime. The sky would turn colors that I have never seen anywhere else. We would also get some good size hail which I thought was so cool when I was a kid. Invariably every bad storm would lead to a tornado warning, luckily we never got hit.

What I miss even more is snow. Living in NC we don't get any accumulation. This year I didn't even see any snow! Oh well, at least I can golf year round.

I live in the western 'burbs (moving to Chicago this fall to be closer to work).

Last spring I was at work one day and there was the biggest rain cloud I'd ever seen. It was like an eclipse, it was that big. Within a matter of a couple minutes it went from bright enough to work by sunlight to almost too dark to work without turning on the overhead lights. Luckily I had my digital camera on me so I popped outside and took this picture:

NUCLEARDAY

Monday, March 13, 2006 1:00 PM

I love spring, especially just as the weather starts to turn. (Plus it's shiny thinking we're almost done with snow.)

We have some occasionally great thunderstorms out here in MI. Used to be kind of a family thing growing up where when there was a particularly nasty one we'd set up on the front porch and watch the debris float down the street ;p

I always find thunderstorms sort of relaxing, actually. I'll sleep right through the worst of them.

We just had a pretty good one out here Saturday night. The worst of the storm passed over us rather quickly, but we had some lightning strikes hit pretty gorram close to where I was working at the grocery that night. Knocked our satellite muzak out (thank god :) Apparently took out the cable at home as well.

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CYBERSNARK

Monday, March 13, 2006 3:05 PM

I love thunderstorms. They're kinda a turn-on for me. Yeah, I'm wierd --something about nature's fury unleashed, dwarfing the insignificant monuments of mankind. Little slices of apocalypse splitting the air, gone in an instant.

The ones we usually get around here are kinda weak (two or three bolts, then it's over and the sun's out), but I saw some great ones in Ottawa.

One time, I was looking out my apartment window, and I saw five bolts strike a single building in about two minutes. It was spectacular. It was like a concerted attack. Wasn't even a particularly tall building; there must've been some sort of static charge built up.

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HONORBOUND

Monday, March 13, 2006 4:31 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by singate:
Hell yes! I grew up in Illinois and we would have the most spectacular storms in the springtime. The sky would turn colors that I have never seen anywhere else. We would also get some good size hail which I thought was so cool when I was a kid. Invariably every bad storm would lead to a tornado warning, luckily we never got hit.

What I miss even more is snow. Living in NC we don't get any accumulation. This year I didn't even see any snow! Oh well, at least I can golf year round.

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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

Well, if it's snow you want... we have a ton of it right now in Minnesota. Schools are closed, roads are mush, and it's still coming. They are even saying that if you listen carefully we should be able to hear some thunder later. Nothing like a ThunderSnowStorm.

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SHINY1

Monday, March 13, 2006 4:35 PM

Nothin' better than a good thunderstorm. I lived in Oklahoma for a year and they have some great ones. Now I live in California where we don't get them too much, but we did have some thunder this weekend and even a bit of snow on the hills. It has been some strange weather that is for sure.

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