alive and you see the lights from the cities and the towns the events you see from space like flying over thunderstorms looking at them from the top were spectacular like a fireworks show we going on and you're looking atit from the very top you know shooting stars going below us or or you know
He is out gathering wheat to-- sorry, more likely she-- is out gathering wheat to make bread, when suddenly-- --a thunderstorm rolls in. Now, remembering that her first husband once got caught in a thunderstorm and that's what cleared the way for her second husband,
It's all over the place. The thunderstorm on "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" was recorded by an aural microphone .
And to ask them, what do you think is appealing about you-- maybe you have a mouthful of cavities or something or you just happened to walk near the ocean during thunderstorms . I just got very lucky. I actually don't think there's anything that is particularly appealing about the books, in the sense of being ripe for adaptation.
seen you know looking down at the Earth and you see that that line that separates day and night slowly moving across the planet thunderstorms on the horizon casting these Long Shadows as the sun sets and then watching the Earth come alive and you see the lights from the cities and the towns the events you see from space like flying over
And it goes right back to sort of deep instincts, which are that we tend to have the intentional stance. When a thunderstorm -- when somebody gets hit by a bolt of lightning, there's a little bit of us that says, oh, yeah, he must have done something sinful in order to deserve that.
Let's change disaster response. about the next thunderstorm that's coming through and going to dump two inches of rain through the hole in their roof.
expression in meteorology that big spin contains little spin. Big whirls have smaller whirls within them. Sometimes, some of the thunderstorms or the convective cells, the individual clouds within those hurricane feeder bands or spiral downpour bands actually acquire a little bit of rotation because they feel the broader changing winds with height
But now I've come back, trying to push it in the press, say, yes! There's also thunderstorms , and you know.
was uh because there was no explanation for all this violent natural phenomena night and day uh thunderstorms lightning rain floods um they were really trying to record and connect the terrestrial to the celestial so happenings on the
playing with your computer and now you start, you can't read anyway, but, you just start talking. "Man I hate these thunderstorms . It sucks, I wanna get home." Why do you do that?
If we do get rained on, what kind of rain is it going to be? male #16: Thunderstorms . Skurka: It's going to be thunderstorms . So we have to at least be planned for that scenario.
Attitude. >> MASS: Attitude is one. Look, it goes beyond attitude. What don't we have in the summer that they have in the space of the East Coast? Humidity and thunderstorms . >> MASS: Humidity and thunderstorms , right? It's thunderstorms --and those are very related. In fact--yeah, it is thunderstorms . There it is. And, in fact, if you look at the map of thunderstorms across the country, the annual
Humidity and thunderstorms . >> MASS: Humidity and thunderstorms , right? It's thunderstorms --and those are very related. In fact--yeah, it is thunderstorms . There it is. And, in fact, if you look at the map of thunderstorms across the country, the annual of number of thunderstorms , I mean, it's pathetic of the West Coast. Look at that.
It's thunderstorms --and those are very related. In fact--yeah, it is thunderstorms . There it is. And, in fact, if you look at the map of thunderstorms across the country, the annual of number of thunderstorms , I mean, it's pathetic of the West Coast. Look at that. That's like ten, and here's Tampa. Here's their headquarters over here. Well, they get over a hundred. So why don't we get thunderstorms ? Well, it's related to the fact we don't have
But bigger. >> MASS: Well, that's true, but it costs a lot of money, okay? But they had spent tens of millions into those extra for the big size, all those thunderstorms dropping rain, so it's very moist, and the air would ride over it and pick up the moisture and came into us. That's where it came from. Yes?
and honk at it to make it calve. And it sounds like a little thunderstorm off in the distance as the glaciers are falling off the end. It's this deep rumble.
But as far as what I'm into, I'm happy to do something like. If that sounds like a thunderstorm , you know what I'm saying. But if, you know, someone's mortified that I did that it's like, well, I'm playing a song that's supposed to be about tumult
But it's really just water flowing out of the jungle into the sea. Normally it's white clouds and thunderstorms .
And we'd have to stop when thunderstorms would roll in.
But bigger. >> MASS: Well, that's true, but it costs a lot of money, okay? But they had spent tens of millions into those extra for the big size, There was a tremendous amount of thunderstorms going on the area.
The other benefit is if you're in a thunderstorm and you are struck by lightning, the lightning will hit the car.
It's a bit like when you're watching a thunderstorm .
So we'll start off with clothing. But imagine being caught say at 13,000 feet in a thunderstorm and you only have an umbrella.
And so the cumulonimbus clouds produce hail and thunderstorms .
Yeah, you know, hurricanes are very efficient rainfall producers because they are, for lack of a better term, a blob of tropical moisture. Ordinarily, when it rains, like a a normal summertime thunderstorm , a piece of that raindrop evaporates on the way down because some of it is kind of eroded by drier air. Not in a hurricane. In a hurricane, every layer of atmosphere, bottom to top, is
"I hadn't chosen transplant surgery so I could fly through a thunderstorm in the middle of the night over the fields of Central
But now I've come back, trying to push it in the press, say, yes! At sound checks, I love doing the thunderstorm sound in a sound check because then the people freak out like what's going on?
But you remember we saw the cumulonimbus with the hail and the thunderstorm .
We show up at the airport, and its thunderstorm season in Boston and Chicago.
Of course, a lot of it was thunderstorms .
Now you can see Baja on the right side coming down over some thunderstorms there, in the Pacific, over Central America, and then there's
the water condenses and heat is released when the water is condensed. The other thing that thunderstorms like are a big change in temperature with height. And this is sort of like--you know, you can think of thunderstorms like your hot cereal pot. Do you ever make hot cereal, right? You heat it up and it starts percolating, right, it causes convecting. Convection occurs when this big change in temperature with height in your pot. Well, the atmosphere is the same way. Well, to get a big change in temperature with height, you
But it's really just water flowing out of the jungle into the sea. There's a cloud. You can see the shadows from the thunderstorm are going off into the distance, hundreds of miles.
knowing the facts about lightning does nothing to remove the astonishment of being in the middle of a thunderstorm .
--a thunderstorm rolls in. Now, remembering that her first husband once got caught in a thunderstorm and that's what cleared the way for her second husband, she drops the half full basket of wheat and hightails it back to her cave.
This is Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment where he's supposed to have held a kite in a thunderstorm with a wet string and a key.
we have big snowstorm, and summertime we have thunder-thunderstorm . Thunderstorm ? Then when
In August, 2025, thunderstorms shut down Chicago O'Hare, and 280 flights were canceled and 80 were diverted.
Now, this stuff here is-- the cloud is the tropical thunderstorms .
So you've got the desert belts here, the tropical thunderstorms .
A lot of dogs, for example, are frightened during thunderstorms .
quite dry that comes in on us over here in terms of how much water vapor that is in the air, which is one way, well, one way that expresses dew point where you have very low dew points. So that's one--and water vapor is important to thunderstorms because that's an important source of energy for thunderstorms , is water vapor. Because when the air rises, the water condenses and heat is released when the water is condensed. The other thing that thunderstorms like are a big change in temperature with height. And this is sort of like--you
dew points. So that's one--and water vapor is important to thunderstorms because that's an important source of energy for thunderstorms , is water vapor. Because when the air rises, the water condenses and heat is released when the water is condensed. The other thing that thunderstorms like are a big change in temperature with height. And this is sort of like--you know, you can think of thunderstorms like your hot cereal pot. Do you ever make hot cereal, right? You heat it up and it starts percolating, right, it causes convecting.
need to warm up the surface a lot, right? But the trouble here is we don't--because the air is coming up from the Pacific, we don't warm up that much . So for a number of reasons, we don't get a lot of thunderstorms and so we are dry. In fact, in Seattle in July is drier than Phoenix in July. You know, you don't think about that, but it's true. The other fun thing about the weather around here is the local weather features, the fact that weather can be so different in one place, you know, compared to some other
Absolutely. El Niño begins with a warming of water temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific, and that induces rising air. You warm the waters, you warm the air above, that air wants to rise. And when you have rising air, you get more convection, thunderstorm activity, and more opportunity for tropical waves and tropical cyclones, i.e., storms and hurricanes. Now,
While I'd been on planes many times, I'd never experienced the full power of a thunderstorm at 10,000 feet.
So, it turns out that moderate stress induces more oxytocin release, right, in a stressful situation you wanna bond together. Think of yourself, I don't know, in the airplane in a bad thunderstorm , the plane is jumping around and you have avoided talking to your seatmate, right, you're reading your book, playing with your computer and now you start, you can't read anyway, but, you just start talking.
Floris Neususs made his Nachtbilder, his night photos, by leaving sheets of photographic paper out at night in thunderstorms so that they carry the imprint
So again, we don't want spurious warnings-- it's going to be a really cold winter with severe thunderstorms , and blizzards, and everything.