Sekani religious beliefs involved animism, the tenet that spirits or powers exist throughout the natural world among animals, plants, landforms, and weather events such as thunder.
I said I wondered whether Dracula might be responsible for the six-day weather forecast: thunder and lightning, rain, snow, rain, thunder and lightning, and – only on the last day – sun.
The National Basketball Association team is called the Thunder, and there is an annual National Weather Festival, where families gather for weather balloon launchings and storm-chaser car shows.
With skies threatening and a morning drizzle lending its way to a steady rain, play was delayed from 8am to 9 30am due to the dangerous weather conditions and sporadic thunder and lightening.
As for the kind of high drama Horne could conjure to devastating effect, Ms. Freelon uses her hands, which are continually weaving patterns, to do much of the work, although her version of "Stormy Weather" had ample thunder and lightning.
"Biblical" was the word of the day in football pundrity circles, in reference to the weather (heavy rain, thunder and lightning to the rest of us not burdened by the need for hyperbole), but prayers were not required at Bloomfield Road, where Blackpool maintained the last 100% record in the Championship with a 6-0 win against Ipswich.
Thunder and lightning has been recorded by weather instruments in many places across Ireland since Monday.
Adam details that "Thor, they reckon, rules the sky; he governs thunder and lightning, winds and storms, fine weather and fertility" and that "Thor, with his mace, looks like Jupiter".
No structures were lost, but the fire burned for two weeks, consuming 73,000 acres of timber and brushland and burning with such intensity that it created its own weather system, with lightning, thunder and precipitation, because of the movement of hot air.
To detect rain & thunder a weather forecaster need only look 24 hours into the future; but to detect a whole man he must look ahead at least to next summer.
