My wife saw the flash walking outside as well, I stepped outside and heard 4 or 5 booms. I love listening to thunder...that didn't sound like thunder.

That was crazy. One big flash and then a massive rumble. I haven't heard anything since.

Thundering can be like that

I stand corrected--just saw a flash of lightning. Phew.

My husband called out "what was that?" I called out" was that thunder?" and it just kept going and going ... it finally stopped.It rained a little, we have heard 2 small rumbles and husband has seen one flash.I had just hopped off of weather dot com so I could plan my week and I saw the little green snot bubble just south of me and said Ah, so rain right now, I will hold off until tomorrow. Went upstairs to finish up nighttime routine with our son and the thunder just suddenly came out of no where.
Now we are just downstairs until bedtime, just in case we need to get to shelter.
Husband is chill, I on the other hand, living here since '94 I do not trust March or April with weather lol

Got the kid to sleep finally, then BOOM. Thought it was the big one...

My first thought was - Trains? Lol. But yeah, thunderstorm! I like them, as long as I’m inside!

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Wild amount of lightning for such a small storm.

Was going to go for a walk to clear my head some but that plan got nixed so I guess I’ll do the dishes?

Was a nice intro to warm stormy weather.

I love this thread so much. I was putting our toddler down and heard it the first time. Doing what I do for a living, rumbles are…. unsettling, lol. I looked outside and there was literally nothing happening, and I got confused. Then we got a free power washing

I was kind of prepared to meet the end times for a split second.

There was some talk about a deranged fugitive running through dorset woods which isn’t too far from me, so I initially thought maybe that had escalated in some capacity. It feels like the wrong everything for thunder!

We were both putting our own toddler down and were THIS close and then BAM.

We had just been out, walked the dog. It was sunny, etc. I didn’t even think about thunder. Wildly sneaky storm

Does thunder not happen here often? I’ve only been here 6 months and that’s the first thunder I’ve heard.

I haven’t been here much longer than you but we had some great summer thunderstorms in my opinion. Not sure how the frequency varied from any other year though.

Uhhhh…wut.

The past 5-6 months are not the most active months for severe storms. It's coming!

The big rumble caught me off guard! I even went outside to see what all the hubub was about.

I love thunderstorms. At least I'll have more luck wishing for one of those than I would a good snow anymore.

In summer yes, plenty of thunderstorms. In winter not so much.

Ahhh I love it. I miss thunderstorms.

Have to check next door to see what the peeps of that part of town are up to, I try not to open the email links

That wasn't God laughing at my jokes? Damn. I need a change.

Man I'm jealous, didn't get anything here in Midlo.

I've got no problem with storms, they're quite refreshing.

"Severe" storms, I don't mess with those.

My poor husband when he moved here sometime early '00s experienced the hectic storms we had that year in like '04 where the summer was non stop gully washers and you had like 30 lightning strikes in the span of less than a half an hour.
It has been over two decades, he loves storms, he would rather not have to deal with that.
I just do not want to deal with another Derecho that was scary for me.