Nature puts on an awesome show!

[chevguy65]

I enjoy a good sunset, star gazing and love a good thunderstorm with a good amount of lightning.
Last year when I was in Italy, I saw probably the Most exciting lightning storm.
It lasted for over an hour and shook our 20 story hotel.
I was on the 14th floor and from my window it was Awesome!!!!
Giant sheets of lightning that traveled across the sky and never touched the ground in all forms of blue, blue gray and silver.
Thunder that was so loud it hurt the ears from inside my room.

Simple things, yes, but awesome to say the least.

[Highway Star]

I enjoy watching outside too. In the past few weeks it has been REALLY HOT all day, like better than 95 degrees with 80% plus humidity. That puts the heat index well over 100. It goes down to around 80 at night. Almost every afternoon around 4 or so, giant, scary purplish gray clouds move in and drop a violent thunderstorm with hard rain, then about an hour later, it is hot and steamy everywhere, and everything is dried up. A few times, we've noticed that it is either raining and sunny at the same time or it is raining in the back yard, and sunny in the front yard.