re: Spinoff: What weird natural phenomena have you experienced?

some time in the early seventies when I was a young teenager maybe a preteen it was raining very hard one morning predawn and I got up to look out of the kitchen window at it because it was lightning so much and raining so hard I've never seen it rain this hard. my mom woke up too and we both stared out the window as the lightning kept flashing faster and faster more and more until it turned into just one solid arc. There was a greenish blueish light in the sky and this was definitely predawn. It was light outside you could see everything it was just one solid arc. This lasted a few minutes and then it went back to flashing and finally slowed down to where it was just lightning alot again and then it quit after it stopped raining so hard. It was still dark. I've never seen anything like this since.

Green flash at sunset, blue flash at sunrise.

Aurora Borealis

During the invasion of Iraq there was a huge sandstorm. It made the whole 'drive through the empty desert and invade a nation' thing even more surreal. 10 foot visibility at times. You would have to pry open your eyes with your fingers in the morning. Had a guy ask me for a dip (I don't dip) because I had so much dirt in my teeth.

In July a few years ago I had a day where the sun never even came close to setting, and swarms of mosquitoes attacked during snow squalls.

Been in a school that was hit by a tornado.

Had a tornado lift the roof off our Oklahoma house, suck the curtains out, and set the roof back down so that the curtains hung on the outside. Then the house flooded when debris clogged up the stream next to the house.

Watched a water spout come ashore at Port Fourchon and tear some stuff up.
Erupting volcano.
Blizzards and I've seen several avalanches.
Northern lights.
Too damn many ice storms.
Several fireball meteors (non exploding).
Hurricanes and wind storms with winds over 100 MPH.

I've seen the Marfa Lights.

I've never seen beejon's dark entities though.

Saw an exploding fireball meteor as a kid in Qatar. It blew up in a bowl shaped flash as it left the atmosphere.

I was working offshore on a clear day and suddenly I started getting hit from the side with hail. I had to climb down a ladder and get to safety while the water spout moved right over us.

Around the Tiger Bend/Antioch area I saw a stationary light in the sky. It was flickering like a ball of flames and seemed to be about the size of a house. My brothers and sister in law all saw it. We pulled over our car and got out and looked for about 5 minutes. It didn't move at all.

Also saw a light in the sky that zipped away in a faded red streak toward the moon when a couple jets flew by.

Ghost. Woke up to ice cold breath down the back of my neck, and things moving around the room.

UFOs, a few times
Huge double rainbows

When I would go fishing or hunting in lower Plaquemines the water would be phosphorus sometimes and anything moving in the water would light up. It is a cool experience paddling your pirogue in pitch black night, when its dead calm and everything around you is a showering green glow.