I just love a good thunderstorm.

[NNadir]

We're having a nice one here in New Jersey; it's very beautiful.

[Shermann]

1. ORLY?

[mopinko]

2. my sister lived in san diego for a while and the weather drove her mad.

couldnt stand the sameness, and missed the midwest storms. actually moved in no small part for that reason. lived a fair number of places and sd was the only 1 she hated.

[NNadir]

3. San Diego got old for us as well.

We left almost 30 years ago; it seems like yesterday.

People still express surprise that we prefer NJ to San Diego, although I've heard it's not the place it was when we left; it's much worse.

[Ahna KneeMoose]

4. Just A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood

Does that thunderstorm compute with
Selective Recovery of Plutonium from Acidic Feeds
As helped along by Professor VerBoomBoom McBoomFace

Otherwise...

A thunderstorm is just a thunderstorm, unless
It's a very beautiful thunderstorm like the ones in
New Jersey, where most just love a good thunderstorm...

[NNadir]

6. As life winds down, all the booms are beautiful.

Professor Verboom is working to save the future long after I'm gone, not necessarily the way I might choose in the details, but certainly in an effective way.

It's comforting to know he exists, so that in a future I will not see, there will still be places where the weather is merely beautiful.

[Xavier Breath]

5. A thunderstorm can be quite nice.

But few moments ago it was a downpour here, yet the sun shone brilliantly. That kinda creeps me out

[tornado34jh]

7. We're having some passing thunderstorms as I write this now here in Lakeland, Florida

It probably will not hit, but we need the rain here. We are in a D2 (severe drought), and all the rain has missed this area.

[mzmolly]

8. I do as well.

When I'm not driving in one.

[Faux pas]

9. Me too

as long as it's not followed by hail and a tornado

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. I do too and I love the way the air smells after a good storm

That smell actually has a name - "petrichor".

[NNadir]

11. Cool word; it seems to be a more interesting name for ozone. n/t.

[electric_blue68]

12. Got two great thunder storm stories...

When I was traveling back east in a bus to NYC from Flagstaff AZ, it was night. In the flat distance southward were thunderstorms. I couldn't hear them. I could see the many lightening strikes in the distance. Beautiful!

The next is an incredible visual Woah! But it needs a set up, so....

Our last family apartment building in westward Washington Hgts was partly built on a steep hill with a massive concrete, and boulders ediface holding it up. We had a back south eastward facing apt We were 8 stories above the buildings below us which went eastward for 3 avenues before rising back up on a mirrored hill that was level with us.

It gave us an incredible 180° view of the sky! I come home from work one summer day. I climb out onto my veranda (fire escape) look southeastward and nearly do a double take!!!

For less than a nano second (being a child of The Cold War) I think I'm looking at an atomic bomb explosion! Of course - Not!
It was a perfect column of cloud rising up from the main mass of a cumulonimbus thundercloud and the top was a a modest somewhat fluting outward perfect circle of contained puffy edged clouds.

It was so massive it'd dropped below the curve of the horizon probably storming somewhere in Queens.

Meanwhile - southwestward was a quite smaller thunderhead towards NJ.

Well, they just stayed their through early evening into the night. They went through the color changes of sunset, twilight, then night. They still somewhat stood out reflected by all the city lights.

Without the noise I watched the lightening in both go off and on for a couple of hours more. Almost like they were talking to each other.

And above me was a clear night sky were a few stars twinkled.

🧡