One Minute Ramble: Summer Storm

The air seems thicker… hotter… stickier
The sunlight is just about getting through
A surreal darkness fills the mid afternoon
As the weather decides what to do
The wind is slight and welcome
Although the breeze is hardly there
The trees are braced, the birds hidden
For they know what is in the air
A distant rumble
A flash of light
The sky is hidden
As though it’s night
The thunder booms overhead
Raindrops freshen (it must be said)
Lightning forks across the sky
The clouds roll and swirl up above
It rains and stops and rains some more
Even heavier than before
More thunder claps and lightning streaks
Then sunbeams filter through the clouds
Blue skies appear once again
The rain stops, a rainbow glows
The warm sun reappears
The thunder has passed – it has moved on
It’s odd, this weather; these summer storms
As quickly as they start, they are gone…