It was the strangest thing. This afternoon I heard thunder. Not faint thunder, either. It sounded huge and explosive. But when I looked outside, not only wasn't it raining, but the bright sun was shining on all and sundry.
Now around midnight, the thunder returned. And this time there was a heavy rainstorm. Lightning too. So this afternoon was kind of like an actor showing up for a matinee performance when there was only an evening show scheduled.
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I know what you mean about hearing thunder, loud at that, and seeing nothing but a clear blue sky outside. While thunderstorms are a fairly typical event on the east coast they're quite rare on the west - at least along the coastline but likely not in the mountains. We'd hear distant thunder in the mountains when we lived in Portland but if there were true rainstorms there I don't remember any.
Thunder like what you've described is called a dry thunderstorm or dry lightning. From what I've read it seems all the electrical activity is there - enough to spark wildfires but without rain that might quench them.
I do wonder, though, about how it was you heard such loud rumbles but saw no lightning. The world is strange.
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