Sure enough, around lunchtime, black clouds swept across the sky, lightening flashed, thunder rolled, and rain poured down, the storm clouds then disappearing as swiftly as they had arrived.
We did experience the bad weather in Leeds because me and my friend walked 1 hour home in the pouring rain, thunder, lightening and LOTS of rain!
There were thunder, lightening, sheets of rain and no transport because the driver knew the train came to the back of the station, so he was waiting at the back, while I stood at the front.
Macbeth's trio will meet in thunder, lightening and rain, but it never seems to occur to them to go out in the sun, and when they do go out they raise storms, flatten crops, scatter flocks and damage property, ships founder, lives are lost.
Tell that to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in thunder, lightening and rain.
"For thirty or forty years, I was so afraid of thunder and lightening," she told me, as one of many examples.
The heatwave may well have subsided as Britain is battered by torrential rain, thunder and lightening - but don't pack away the suncream just yet.
The heatwave finally broke on the Saturday, making way for thunder and lightening, which held up the play for an hour.
Together with the slightly more sinister yōkai (monsters), kami inhabit trees, rivers, rocks and other natural phenomenon, including thunder and lightening.
