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[azskyman]

Just checking the radar images back home, and I remember many a summer night...especially in my grade school and teen years when we didn't have radar, but I simply would catch the flash of lightning and count out the seconds before the thunder.

The less time between the lightning and the thunder...the closer that storm was coming. Didn't need radar to learn that fact!

Another thing I remember about nighttime summer storms was the whistling wind through the metal screens on the house...and having to shut the double hung windows, even though I wanted to leave them open.

Storm will be hitting my old neighborhood within the next 30 minutes, but I'm sure the lightning is already visible for anyone still awake and looking at flashes of light around their room.

And memories you have about nighttime thunderstorms?

[Guest]

Azskyman - I did the counting between lightning and thunder too. Teaching it to my daughter too.

What stands out most in my memories is the lightning would be so intense that you could read a newspaper during some of those storms - the frequent and severity of them.

But most of the time the storms would move through in 30 mins to and hour and it would be over with.

[Pburgh]

Oh how I remember those summer storms and, yes, the counting!

I remember how very hot it was. No AC in our house but the next best thing was the covered porch on the side of the house. We would take our iced tea and sit out there and watch the storms hoping that driving rain wouldn't drive us into the hot house. Ohhhhhh what a wonderful breeze that followed a good summer storm - and the smell - well it was the cleanest smell in the world.

[azsnowman]

Still do the counting thing, only one problem, I can't count that high anymore LOL!

Sitting on the front porch with my grandfather near Plainview Texas watching those HUGE storms roll in from the New Mexico border area, smelling his pipe tobacco, taking a *bath* in ~Off~ because the *skeeters* would carry you away. Now.......Michelle and I sit on our front porch watching these storms blow in from the New Mexico border to our east (46 miles). "Thanks For The Memories!"

Dennis

[Lindaloo]

When I was young I remember being awakened by flashes of light. I looked out the window and it seemed that the lightning was right over my house. Come to find out that storm was 60 miles away, but yet I could see the lightning (heard no thunder). Found out later that this was a severe thunderstorm or super cell. That lightning was very intense.

[streetsoldier]

Not at night, but in the early morning...I was "first one up", about 7 years old or so, and as I stood at the door of my parent's bedroom (this was before we got A/C, so the windows were open)...I beheld a single sharp, red bolt passing through one window and out another. I will never forget that...and my parents slept through it. :o

[David]

Any thunderstorm I remember, because it's a blessing we get them. Usually 1 a month. There was one, actually yesterday 1 year ago, that a storm stalled over Topeka. It rained, then a downburst(Funnel was spotted by spotter close to our neighborhood. :o) knocked out power. It rain 2.91 inches in 3 hours, .87 in 10 mins!!! I took video of it, just amazing.