The Color Green

When a new year starts, people are BEGGING for spring. The holidays are over and there just isn't anything to really look forward to unless you count Chocolate Day (2/15). However the bitter cold of January and February really are rude and intrusive and they suck the life right out of you.

Then comes spring. April and May comes and you get flowers and sunny days and-

THUNDERSTORMS!

TORNADO SEASON!

That is correct. My First favorite micro-season in the mid-west is tornado season. (You might think this is in poor taste after what just happened in the east, but I'm talking the SEASON not the actual tornado.)

In the Prairie Lands, you have NEVER seen a more beautiful sight than a fully fledged thunderstorm and wall cloud. The clouds dip, roll, they look like motion captured waves of the sea tinted bluish gray and GREEN!

"There's no such thing as a green sky," said someone I once knew and then never saw again. There's a whole scientific reason why the clouds get that color, I have never been able to retain that information. All I know is that when it IS that color, it is really cool, and I need bring up the weather and keep an ear out for the tornado siren.

Another interesting thing you could be fifty miles away and look INTO a huge thunderstorm and just watch the lightning bounce from one cloud to another. It is the most AMAZING thing you have ever seen! While looking at it from far away its like looking at a curtain of water as well. You know those cartoons where it has the rain falling on only one character? Kind of like that, but on a much larger scale.

But the BEST thing about this season is the more rain we get, the better the crops are going to be that year.