I found this discriptive article on weather.com about what to watch for in the clouds for signs of bad weather. http://www.weather.com/activities/recreation/outdoors/extreme/readingwxintro.html

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Good article. One rule of thumb I've always adhered to is to stop and check the sky if I hear thunder, even if the sun is shining where I'm at.

And if I see flashes at night, I'll check the wind flow. Just because you don't hear the thunder doesn't mean it's not headed your way.

Ditto, good article, and well worth the few minutes it takes to read it.

Decent article. Just remember, lightening can strike from 30+ miles away.


I love sitting on a overlook, watching a receding thunderstorm and the lightening jumping from ridge to ridge.

Awsome spectacle!!! And for me, worth the risk.

have taught me all that he's set out there, although not in such neat algorithms. However, what I want to know is why, when threatening weather approaches, I'm so seldom in a position to do anything more about it other than hunker down? Well, that's hyperbole, but not by much...

Check this out instead...

http://pafc.arh.noaa.gov/classroom/ (http://pafc.arh.noaa.gov/classroom/practical_mountain.php)
practical_mountain.php (http://pafc.arh.noaa.gov/classroom/practical_mountain.php)

Despite the weakness of the winter sun we do have thunder in the winter if there is a large difference in temps during a snowstorm such as a front going through. It isn't common but it does happen.

I can verify that, I've seen a lightening flash and heard thunder twice during a snowstorm. Every time we got a foot plus.

but that was pre-global warming, when north Alabama still had snow storms, thirty years or so ago...

Check this out instead...



Why "INSTEAD"..??..How bout "ALSO"..??..:rolleyes: