Do you ever sit outside and watch the storm approach?

I’ve done it during the beginnings of hurricanes, but I never do it purposely when there are tornado warnings. Hurricanes you can watch and feel the rain bands come in, and even stay outside during them at first. Tornados are so fast it is scary to me. I’m reasonably afraid of lightening also, so if there is a lot of lightening in an approaching storm, which is usually the case with tornadoes, I am inside, not taking a shower, not on the phone, LOL.

I just bought a house on a mountain top and it is so amazing to watch the weather roll in and out. Often we are above the weather so it is a really unique perspective. Who needs a TV when the view is ever changing? Today I saw our first bluebird of the season and I have a pair of golden eagles that also keep me entertained.

Thunderstorms only in my end of North Carolina. The wife is still is worried; we’ve had a couple tornadoes hit within a half a mile in the last five years.

Hell yeah. I love it. I’ve been known to go out in the middle of a thunderstorm. When my daughter was a baby, I’d take her outside in them.

Years ago, in high school, a friend and I flew a kite in a thunderstorm. Dumb, I know.

I love the feeling of the humidity during a storm. In summer storms that I can remember, it was warm out. I especially liked the storms by the beach, watching the lightning strike the ocean from a balcony.

I should add we love the smell to storm and wind blowing through the trees.

Whenever I can.

I love watching storms. We can see for miles in every direction from our house. I’m rarely without a camera when I know a storm is approaching.

I sit outside as long as it is safely possible. I love storms, always have.

I do love watching storms roll in. My old house had an aluminum awning that I could sit under and just listen to the rain come down. This house doesn’t have a covered porch and I miss that.

Yes, and I love doing it, sitting on the porch with my cat sitting on my lap. He’s afraid of the vacuum cleaner, but thunder, lightning wind and rain don’t faze him.

However… once when I was living in apartment, we were sitting on the second-floor balcony in the middle of an electrical storm when a bolt of lightning hit a transformer in the parking lot behind my building maybe 200 feet away. The noise was deafening, and sparks flew everywhere. My cat shot off my lap, raced into the bedroom and hid under the bed for an hour. It was hilarious.

My house has so much glass that I might as well be outside. During severe thunderstorms, when the lightning seems to be about 50 yards away, I stay inside.

But I have often sat on my deck pre-storm and watched the changing cloud cover, light, and wind speeds.and felt the temperature drop.

Oh yes, it’s so beautiful to watch.

This is one of my favourite things to do @syz. I love storms. In other houses we were on a hill and could watch the storms rolling in. I loved to lie in bed in the middle of the night and open the curtains so I could watch. In this house we are surrounded by trees so we don’t have an uninterrupted view of the sky. That is the only thing I really don’t like about this house. That I can’t watch storms.

I watch satellites and radars to decide whether or not to set up my telescope. But that’s not the same thing.

I absolutely love storms- thunderstorms, monsoons, thundersnows—all of them. I lived in Clearwater and Montana where the best lightning shows occurred, lived in Tucson with the monsoons and in Minnesota with thundersnows. Last summer, I drove through Nebraska and saw the most amazing dry lightning show. I have pulled off the road or driven out to the edge or town just to watch lightning shows.

Someone told me once that lightning and thunder is heaven and earth making love—always loved that analogy!

@linguaphile Oooooh, I experienced my first thundersnow this year. It was fascinating!

Yes, I am fascinated. Try rolling a tractor tire out into the middle of a big open field in the middle of a storm so you can sit in it an experience the lightening….I didn’t do that lol someone I know did, and yes they survived.

I like lightening, I should be afraid of it considering this one time I was at home and heard the biggest crack I’ve ever heard and smelled an electrical smell I looked around in the house and couldn’t find anything. Something told me to go outside. So I did. My neighbors house closest to my side, we are talking the houses were about 5ft apart, (condos) was blasted right off and on fire! I saved the cat and called 911.

Cause of fire? Lightening strike.

One of my favorite moments was watching a rainstorm approach. This was in Cambridge MA. You could see sheets of rain coming in a long horizontal line. It moved closer towards the street and I stood on the other side of the street until it moved over me and kept going. It was still moving as I went inside to get out of the rain. I did know enough to come in out of the rain.which was a relief to my mother.

I’m a chicken shit. Lightning scares me a moderate amount, but tornadoes scare the crap out of me. My youngest daughter and I were on the highway tonight during a tornado watch, and I swear we were driving right towards one. Got off at the exit ramp near my house, and put the storm behind us, but I watched my rear view mirror anxiously til we got home. The sky was so ominous, and seemed to be closing in from all sides. Almost had a panic attack, but she calmed me down.

Yes, but I also frequently check http://www.unwetterzentrale.de/uwz/ and http://www.niederschlagsradar.de/ and at some point I go inside. Last year my wife was still in the garden and I told her, we’ll get hail in 10 minutes. It was still dry and the sky was very dark. The forecast was very precise. Fortunately the hail only had the size of cherry pits. Tornadoes are very rare in Germany but they do occur.

Never seen a hurricane, or a tornado, so I cannot really relate, I do like ‘regular’ thunderstorms though. My grandparents had a house with this veranda/porch section, and whenever a storm was approaching we’d all just move there just to smell the air, listen to the rain and enjoy the light(ning) show.