Cindy: Nature Offers Best Fireworks

Thousands of folks across the area ooohed and aahed over fantastic fireworks displays last night. But while I enjoy the bang, flash and dazzle of pyrotechnics, they really can’t compare to what Mother Nature has to offer.
I am a thunderstorm junkie. And summer is my season. The minute the air grows heavy and the clouds darken, I rush around the house, opening windows and pulling up the blinds. I eagerly scan the skies for the first brilliant zigzag of lightning. I love it all. The bone-rattling roll of thunder, the radiant arcs of electricity that split the sky and the heavy rain that follows/ Cindy Hval , SR Front Porch. More here.

DFO: I’m with Cindy on this one. Nothing better than a wild lightning/thunderstorm in this country. We’ve had some good ones this summer. But the best of the best, in my experience, are the thunderstorms out of the Bad Rock Canyon, north of Kalispell. Absolutely. Scare. You. To death. At times.

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Question: Have you experienced better thunderstorms elsewhere than the ones we have here in the Inland Northwest?