Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 23, 2020

Lightning makes weather even MORE watchable!

Where I grew up, we had nearly daily thunderstorms during the late summer. We pretty often just put on bathing suits and went out in the rain to run around, splash each other etc. Sometimes, instead, we’d wrap up in tarpaulins and “try to stay dry”… for awhile. It would have been MUCH less fun doing solo.

One summer in the 1970’s I had friends over for a cookout. We sat on the wall eating chili burgers and watched thunderstorms with lightning at all four compass points from us. Marvelous.

Caulfield watches lightning a lot? Could it be that he was originally white?

We went to a Weird Al concert. It was at an outdoor theater and was delayed by a short severe thunderstorm that caused another delay when it knocked out the power. The stage was enclosed so the show went on when the power came back. There was cloud to cloud lightning overhead for the whole show.

Lots of childhood memories in this one.

Beautiful drawing!

Speaking of unpredictable weather, it seems that we may be looking at back-to-back tropical storms/hurricanes along the Texas/Louisiana coast this week.

So you can watch the weather and stay (relatively) dry, God created front porches with porch swings.

Back in southern Illinois my dad and I would sit there on summer Saturday afternoons watching thunderstorms roll in.

“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.” Mark Twain

“The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.” Mark Twain

His rear would be fine if he wore the right gear.

I’ve never understood why some people will call a hot day with no clouds or wind a nice day

I call it boring, give me weather to watch

It’s a derecho.

Nice depiction of passage of time without multiple panels, there in the first panel.

Caulfield talks out loud to himself now?

Plenty of thunderstorms here in Madison, Wisconsin, but spaced out about every 2-3 weeks, mainly during the summer. Some friends moved to Seattle, and I was chatting with them after they’d been there about 5 years and asked about its reputation for rain every day, thinking they’d have lots of exciting lightning stories. They said yup, there’s higher humidity and tiny little droplets in the air pretty much every morning, but they had yet to witness a downpour, hear thunder, or witness a stroke of lightning.

We rarely have thunderstorms here. Especially of that magnitude.

Driving through Southern Wyoming at night during a thunderstorm listening to “Ghost Riders in the Sky”! The full effect of the song and the weather.

Beautiful drawing!