Thunderstorm Rolling In!

[SilverSabre25]

If you are outside in your backyard and a nice grumbly storm is rolling in, at what point do you give it up and head inside? No severe watch/warning or anything. Nor warning of a strong storm. And your dcks desperately need the outside time so that you don't box them up and mail them to the moon before the end of the day, or naptime.

[Blackcat31]

When I see raindrops covering the sidewalk.....

or until I see lightening.

Otherwise, we play outside until we literally can't anymore.

[Familycare71]

I check weather bug on my phone and see how close lighting is... But if I didn't have that I would go in if I heard thunder or saw lighting

[SilverSabre25]

I ask because we are outside running off energy and I'm watching this cute 'lil thing rolling in.

When we came out I could hear grumbles of thunder but they are way off. High hazy clouds, mostly blue sky and sunshine. But now the cool breezes have kicked up (so welcome) and I can see the edge of darker cloud that probably heralds the storm. But I'm not ready to go in...these kids are crazy this morning.

[Cat Herder]

Until the neighborhood "Blue Hairs" come out to stare at me with their hands on their hips or until there is lightening.

I yeild to Grannies.... lovethis

[Familycare71]

Until the neighborhood "Blue Hairs" come out to stare at me with their hands on their hips or until there is lightening.

I yeild to Grannies.... lovethis

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[Play Care]

My husband is an avid golfer. Because of this our rule is if we hear thunder, we go in. Too many think "it's just a rumble of thunder" and then it's too late.

But we also get hours and hours of outdoor time and I have special indoor gross motor toys so I'm not dealing with stir crazy kids

[lovemylife]

Send the rain to Iowa!!! Everyone's yard here is dying because we have barely received any rain all summer with extreme heat. We don't have a pretty green yarn any more. It is brown!

[Maria2013]

I let the sky turn a bit dark cause many times it just blows over without a drop of rain...but if I hear a thunder or see a lightning we head in

[MrsSteinel'sHouse]

Thunder that is not way off or lightening. If it is just rain we stay out Send that rain on down my way. I can't wait until Friday when it cools off and is sweatshirt weather!

[MsLaura529]

Haven't had it happen yet, but I would bring them in with the first sound of close thunder or seeing lightning, or blowing/downpour rain.

As a sidenote: Ugh, I am keeping my fingers crossed that we are stuck inside this afternoon because of rain. It was WAY too hot here ... mid 90's and high humidity today and yesterday (and we have no a/c here). Crazy Michigan weather though, with a high of 50's on Friday!

[snbauser]

When I see raindrops covering the sidewalk.....

or until I see lightening.

Otherwise, we play outside until we literally can't anymore.

This. Or if the thunder is really close. Around here I can hear the thunder when it is pretty far away and a lot of times it just goes around us. I swear we have a dome over us.

[MsLaura529]

This. Or if the thunder is really close. Around here I can hear the thunder when it is pretty far away and a lot of times it just goes around us. I swear we have a dome over us.

OT: Too funny that you mention this. DH and I used to say that our old house was in a "weather bubble" ... we would end up with completely opposite weather of whatever everyone else around us was getting. One day, I was leaving the house after a good 10 minute downpour, puddles in the driveway, black clouds, etc ... pull out of our driveway, and drive the 50 feet down the street and pull onto a COMPLETELY DRY street, haha.

[e.j.]

The weathermen around here always stress that lightening can strike you from a storm that is still miles away. They say, "If you can hear it, fear it. If you can see it, flee it." I tend to bring the kids in as soon as I hear thunder or see lightening.

A little off the topic....My husband is a weather nut. He loves nothing more than standing outside in the middle of a good storm watching everything going on around him. I think he'd be a storm chaser if he could be. When he was in his late teens, he was out working in the yard. He says the sky was bright blue and there were maybe a few white fluffy clouds but nothing that looked threatening in any way. Rain wasn't predicted. All of a sudden, there was a crack of thunder and a lightening bolt that came out of one of those clouds as it passed by the house. It came so unexpectedly and so close by that it "knocked him on his a$$". I figure if a bolt of lightening can hit that close on such a beautiful day, I'm not taking any chances when I know there are storms heading my way!

[SilverSabre25]

Thanks guys

we ended up heading in when I heard a particularly loud crack of thunder. I was about to anyway. Of course, then the weekly tornado siren test started and with the storm rolling in I conveniently forgot that it was Wednesday at Noon...and I scared my daughter pretty bad by saying "Go. Just go, get in the house NOW" as we were cleaning up a few toys out back. Then almost as soon as I said that I remembered, oh RIGHT. Test day. Heh. I felt awful for scaring her.

We ended up with lots of great thunder but only a few sprinkles. A few miles north of us got soaked though. Silly storms.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that prefers to stay out until it's either actually raining or you see lightning (I didn't ever see any myself today, but I knew by the volume of thunder it was close enough to head in)