rain and thunder

The sky was filled with dark clouds this morning, but they didn't look like rain clouds to me, so I started thinking about rain and thunder and how it all happens.

Rain falls due to a natural phenomenon -- the accumulation of water (in the form of clouds) being vaporised from the ground surface of the earth by heat from the sun. When the accumulation of water in the clouds reaches saturation point, it comes back towards earth as rain.

Thunder (discharges of enormous electrical voltage) happens due to the electrostatic discharges (static electricity) amongst dust particles [belonging to opposite charges i.e. positive (+) or negative (-)] rubbing against eachother (friction) as they are flown upwards from the earth's surface due to the upward air movement caused by a storm system. This air flow also forces clouds to accumulate, making the chances for thunder greater. Some storm systems may be very large. The by-product of this forced cloud movement and thunder is lightning (discharge of huge electrical voltage from the friction).

Both thunder and rainfall happen together because they both belong to the same storm system. A huge air flow accumulates a host of clouds together suitable for rainfall; the air flow carries a huge volume of electrostatically charged dust from the earth's surface in the upper strata; and thunder happens.

Hence it appears that thunder promotes rainfall, but it is purely coincidental.
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Song 084: Spooky
Artist: Classics IV
Album: Traces
Year: 1967
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In the cool of the evening when ev'rything is gettin' kind of groovy,
I call you up and ask you if you want to go and meet and see a movie,
First you say no, you've got some plans for the night,
And then you stop, and say, "All right."
Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you.

I love the rythmn of this song. It's going to be stuck in my head all day long, but I can't think of a better song to be stuck there. I didn't listen to a lot of music by the Classics IV, but this one is great. I can remember two others by the Classics IV that were popular back in my day . . . Stormy in 68 and Every Day With You Girl in 69.

After moving to Atlanta from Jacksonville, Florida, the Classics IV had their first national hit in 1968 with Spooky, which they recorded in 1967 on the Imperial Records label. The song made it to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the U.S., and #46 in the UK.