[Dino]

Just been watching a thunderstorm that has been rumbling away over and around my house for the past 3 hours and is still going as we speak. This has to be the longest lived and one of the most powerful storms that I've ever experienced. It's occuring in 2 seperate places, both to the north and the south, literally lighting up the sky in those places. There've been short bouts of really hard rain too.

So naturally, I've phoned up my buddy and he's come over, we're outside right now on the roof of my house (my room has stairs to the flat roof above it), with a barbeque going, a joint being passed around, listening to the radio on local news listening for weather forcasts. This is being typed on my laptop right now. I swear this is the most fun I've had in ages.

And that's what this thread is about - tell us about any fun weather related stuff that you guys have done. Storm watching, chasing, or just cool/scary weather.

And lets all hope it doesn't rain again! Thank god the barbeque isn't a charcoal one.

EDIT: WOW this is getting intense, very loud thunder and intensely bright lightning.

EDIT EDIT: This is now officially the most powerful storm I've ever seen or experienced. We've had to move inside the tent because of the heavy rain, and we just had a lightning flash just five miles away, that lit up the WHOLE sky like daylight, which was followed by an explosive thunderclap that nearly shattered the windows.