Even on the edge of a thunderstorm, there's a graceful periodicity to the way a full-fledged hickory moves.
England captain Stuart Broad believes the safety of players was endangered by the umpires' decision to play on during a thunderstorm in their World Twenty20 defeat by New Zealand.
The weather, incidentally, has been mild all day but the climate is beginning to close in, with the wind picking up a tad and a small chance of a thunderstorm later on.
They've got the radio on, and a thunderstorm rumbles ominously outside.
At the dress rehearsal on Thursday a thunderstorm broke, and winds swept through the open-air theater.
As the severe weather moved to the northeast on Wednesday, a thunderstorm in West Virginia caused a gymnasium to collapse at the Twin Branch Christian Academy, in Davy, killing a woman on attending a wake there, The A.P. reported.
Similarly, on May 12, a thunderstorm formed at about 1200 hours and lasted about 2.5 h.
On May 6, a thunderstorm formed at about 1430 hours and lasted about 2 h.
Five men in their 20s who took refuge under a tree in Cantiague Park in Hicksville, on Long Island, during a thunderstorm on Sunday were injured after lightning struck the tree, the authorities said.
* On 21 May 1921 thousands of frogs fell on Gibraltar during a thunderstorm.
