Lightning . . .

. . . and Rain

"Earth seems to hold her breath before the expected fury," wrote Celia Thaxter. "Lightning scores the sky from zenith to horizon, and across from north to south 'a fierce, vindictive scribble of fire' writes its blinding way, and the awesome silence is broken by the cracking thunder that follows every flash."

According to The 2022 Old Farmer's Almanac Weather Calendar, "When the thunder is more continuous than the lightning, there will be great winds."

In the New King James Version of the Bible, Psalm 135:5-7 reads:

For I know that the LORD is great,

And our Lord is above all gods.

Whatever the LORD pleases He does,

In heaven and in earth,

In the seas and in all deep places.

He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;

He makes lightning for the rain;

He brings the wind out of His treasuries.