We just had a fantastic thunderstorm. It was super dark gray to the NW, and you could feel it coming. I looked at accuweather’s animated radar, and it was incredible to see it grow and move right towards where we live.
I watched most of it from the front porch then, with children and Frank joining and leaving off and on. I prefer to have silence and enjoy the whole affair, none of my family seem to share that preference, alas.
So the cloud formations and colors were great, lightening was good, cloud to cloud above the whole mass that was visible to the naked eye, as well as many cloud to ground conduits of light and bang, with several near the end of the storm getting that “craaccccckkkkkingggggg” beginning sound. All in all, it wasn’t the “perfect” storm, but a good one. The air cooled down from the high 80’s to 72.6 degrees F. in a very short time. Natural air conditioning, for now. The wind gust were quite boisterous, whipping in from the West, North-West.
Storms like this are fun because across the street there are many tall pines and oaks and other assorted trees. When the gust of wind come, they hit those tall tree tops first, and they swoosh and sway, making a beautiful sound, then our little trees begin to move in our yard, then you can feel it on your face.
I love it when the rain is coming closer too. You can see it like fringes of gray coming down in the distance, then as it comes even closer you can smell it, feel the moisture, yet no rain has fallen on your property, or anywhere you can see without a telescope 😉
This storm has slanted, nearly side-ways, rain for awhile, it was so slanted hardly any hit the ground. Later, giant rain-drops began falling, one, then another, then more here and there, finally several at a time, until it was raining hard. Lightening everywhere. You could see that the grass was actually greener after awhile.
Well, we don’t “need” this rain. The gardens are so wet. I won’t have to water them for a month, even if we get no more rain. It’s that wet. What a wonderful difference from last year and the previous five.