No Thunder. No Lightning. Just Rain.

I can’t decide if Evernote is becoming a crutch, or just an aspect of my writing method. Anyway, here is a note from yesterday:

So there is sun in Vancouver, on occasion. Like today. Started out rainy though, which is pretty much par for the course. Overcast and now, sunny.

Some interesting cloud formations. Long, thick wisps of clouds. Like bread rolls, or the dough rolled out and rising. I’ve noticed a distinct lack of cumulus clouds, thunderheads and the big, puffy, cottonball clouds. And you know what else? No thunder, and no lightning.

It rains, hard sometimes, but just rain. No thunder. No lightning. Nothing you’d normally associate with rain and overall stormy weather.

Weird.

Dude next to me is reading a calculus textbook on an iPad. A calculus textbook! On an iPad.

I read a physical calculus textbook, and did every problem in it. Yay for broadening my horizons.

You know, the lack of thunder clouds must mean there aren’t tornados. Or maybe it just isn’t the season for thunder clouds and thunderstorms. Course, there were no thunderstorms when I visited in May. Just a hailstorm.

I’m told this is the “rainy season” in Vancouver, and it certainly lives up to that name. But the lack of thunder and lightning makes it rather, well, boring. It’s just rain, after all. There’s no real threat to going out and do things in the rain, like walking along the beach or playing beach volleyball. Those are two things you don’t do in Chicago during a thunderstorm. They actually kick you off the beach if there’s lightning.

Wondering what other “seasons” there are in Vancouver. Road constructions seems to be year-round. It’s always the “in between season” in Chicago. You know right when the weather is going to change to nice because the crews start setting up, and you know right when the weather is going to change to crap because they start closing down and removing equipment.

Curious what March, April and May will be like. Maybe there will be thunder and lightning.