Summer storms showcase the beauty and power of nature
icture yourself relaxing on the beach on a picture-perfect summer day. Blue skies, wispy clouds, gentle waves, birds calling, and children running along the sand. An unexpected rumble rolls past. You’ve just finished a snack, so it can’t be your stomach. You turn and see a wall of black clouds approaching from mainland.
Within minutes dark clouds cover half the sky, spiraling upwards with the highest tendrils stretching closer and closer to the beach. Over the ocean is still perfect blue. The wind picks up. The temperature drops. You know it’s time to go.
This scene is all too familiar to us along the coast. As I write this, the 10-day weather forecast shows an average 25% chance of rain (ranging from 18-49%). In most places, that would mean a 25% chance of rain. But in Charleston, I like to think of it as “it will rain, only over 25 percent of the area.”…