The Grapes of Wrath...

[Zeke]

...have not been weather witnessed in Oklahoma for a while.

I spent the weekend there and drove to Kansas City in the worst storm I've been mobile in (straight up Highway 71) for a LONG time.

I'm cruising along, tunes and a cigar, with the windows down in the high seventies at night and -- instantly -- the temperature dropped to the mid-to-low sixties like a wall.

Rain.

Thunder.

Lightening, all around for miles.

It was intense.

[JJIII]

We have had a couple of intense storms pop up out of nowhere and disappear just as quickly here in East Tennessee. I don't remember ever seeing them come and go so fast.

[donquixote99]

Don't know about Tennessee, but big storms are common to the plains in all seasons. Mid-continental weather likes to go to extremes.

[Zeke]

Yes, yes it does.

But that was impressive...

[bobabode]

Just wait for the topsoil to get lofted up into the air due to this drought and we'll see some real grapes of wrath.

[barbara]

If we don't get some rain in my neck of the woods, there won't be grapes of any kind come harvest time.

[Rajoo]

Two weekends in August that I visited South Lake Tahoe, we had serious hail storms.

[MrPots]

We've been having quite a few thunderstorms this late summer. The past few years have been hot and dry so this is a nice change.

The storms keep the dead branches cleared out of the trees and make good fall bonfire fodder.

[mpholland]

Weather has been mostly perfect here this Summer.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by mpholland

Weather has been mostly perfect here this Summer.

Ours has been good too. Not too hot with plenty of rain.