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> > Then in the midwest, we call it prerain. So prior to raining the wind would pick up just slightly and the air would just get alittle warm. I always loved the pre and post rain weather.
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> I love that, too. I love to go outside when it's about to rain, and just watch. I would just like to share an experience with pre-rain that I had a few weeks ago.
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> I went outside, because the wind was blowing HORRENDOUSLY, and making quite a racket. I looked up into the sky, to see what was going on, and I was overwhelmed with the beauty. To my East and Northeast, we have mountains. The surrounding sky was grey, dark and cloudy. In front of the grey clouds, was the most glorius rainbow, just gorgeous, taking up quite a bit of the eastern skyscape. On that side of the sky, BLUE lightening was striking every few minutes. To the South-west and west, the sky was just blue as blue could be. To the Northwest, the sun was setting, and the entire sky was vividly yellow. Anyone of these sights is beautiful on it's own, but the constrast just made it so much more amazing.
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> I stood outside for about 20 minutes. I was beginning to get very wet and cold. No big deal. Then I realized that I was standing right next to a very large tree, and the lightening was very close. That convinced me to retreat indoors.
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> The next day, in the newspaper, there was a picture of the previous evening's sky. I was excited to see it, but they only got the grey sky/rainbow/lightening combo. While beautiful, I was sad that the whole world couldn't see the "bigger" picture.
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> Miss Tess

I saw almost the same thing while driving to Georgia last night. There were lightning bolts on my left and a red-orange-pink-purble sunset on my right. It was the right conditions for a rainbow, but I didn't see one. I thought you must live near Chattanooga until I realized that you said you saw that a few weeks ago.
Howard