Beautiful skies today and there is a heat advisory here as well. It feels better out today though because the humidity broke. Right now it’s 89° an the humidity is lingering around 40%. 
You got some thunderboomers headed your way.
I’m hoping we get them around 7-8pm so I can see the lightning.
I like T-storms.
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I like them too … as long as the power doesn’t go out 
Growing up in a ranching community provided a boatload of lightning stories—some of them involving fatalities. Thunderstorms are amazing, but I have a healthy respect for their dangers. Besides, they scare our beagle.
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We were just under a confirmed Tornado warning. They sky went green and all hell broke loose. Luckily we have no damage and still have power. Surrounding areas were not so lucky. O.o Tons of trees and wires down, cars turned over and buildings damaged.
It’s getting scary around here with the Tornados. We rarely had an issue. Like one in 20 years. This year alone, we’ve already had several 
Ranching involves large open spaces, often where a man on or horse or just standing on the ground is the tallest thing for miles, right?
I have a healthy respect for it too. Some of the scariest experiences have been while surfcasting out on the Cape when a storm blows over, where you or your fishing pole are also pretty good targets. I tend to stay away from the lighthouse on that beach too. Just hunker down under a rain poncho against the back of the nearest dune and wait.
It wasn’t that bad of a storm last night. Not a lot to see either. Those winds rarely make it over the mountain to the west, though it was pretty windy.
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Yup. Long before I was born, my grandfather was riding a horse when lightning hit his horse and killed it. My grandfather was supposedly stunned but wasn’t hurt badly.
When I was a kid, a guy in town had a few acres of alfalfa down the lane from us. My brother remembers waving to him several minutes before a bolt of lightning hit the guy when he stepped off his tractor.
Just a few days ago, in the county next to my home county, lightning struck the wet ground near a youth group on some sort of church outing (video below). The electricity was dissipated by the ground enough that it didn’t kill any of them, but it sent seven to the hospital.
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Wow … that had to be scary 
When I was in Italy, we used to get monster storms pretty often. The topography was such that you went from balmy Mediterranean temperatures to Alpine snow in the spa of about 10 miles as the crow flies (20 by road).
I remember a day one November when we had friends staying. We all had lunch on our balcony in t-shirts, drinking cold beers, looking down at the sea. My mate and I decided we’d go play in the snow, so drove up beyond the next village – about 3 miles as the crow flies and 10 miles by road, rising from around 1900 feet above sea level to 5250. We stood at the top of the mountain, plastic toboggans in hand, looking down to the Med, where you could see people on a sunny beach. Very surreal.
Anyway, as you can imagine that warm air rising in such a short distance up a series of side-by-side mountain valleys caused some pretty dramatic storms. They’d only last very short periods – say 10-15 minutes at a time from blue skies to blue skies.
You’d see it begin to happen. Almost always around 3-4pm. Bright blue Disney skies would start to circle above the valley sides’ ridges and clouds would form, from seemingly nowhere, circling faster and faster. The sky would darken and just throw everything it had at you. Torrential rain, thunder and lightening – occasionally hail, even in summer. Still warm, but enough of a drop in temperature in mid-summer that it was such a lovely relief from the heat of the day.
One day, some friends who lived on the other side of our valley, like us, were stood on their balcony watching the latest show. All of a sudden, they said, later, it was as if someone had torn the view in half and our house took a direct hit. Thankfully, the lightening conductor did its job, so no major damage apart from one TV and a few other small electrical items. My wife happened to be in a bedroom at the time and saw a huge flash come right out from an electrical socket and shoot across the room. She wasn’t hurt at all, thankfully.
That was our only direct brush with it. Other than that, I used to love it. Hugely dramatic and exhilarating. Always left the air that little bit fresher.
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73° on Halloween Night!
First time I’ve ever seen that in my 60 years!
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Wow! We are at 59° today. Perfect trick-or-treating weather for the kids. The previous couple of days were on the warm side and we actually had to turn the AC back on.
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It’s been 80 here in the house every day. We put our AC’s away a couple weeks ago. Silly us thought October would be cooler than September LOL Needless to say all the fans are still going strong.
It’s been in the 20s F here at night with a little snow. Like most winter storms, it’s moving east, so get ready.
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I figure this warmth can’t last forever It would be nice to actually turn the fans off for a minute 
That’s January / February weather for us.
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When I left work at 4pm it was 82. By the time I got home at 730, it was 53.
Quite a drop (and ya, that distance is probably 3 USDA zones apart too. LOL!)
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We made it up to 69 today and now it’s also sitting at 53
Days are getting shorter, we had to set the clocks back, and, on top of that, it’s been gray and rainy. I shouldn’t complain; we need the rain. But some sunshine sure would be nice right now.
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I wish it would rain. Before it gets cold enough to be called snow.
Really dry here and lots of brush fires.
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We had been quite dry. Now we’ve received two months worth of rain in two days.
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