As Changeable as the Weather

Last night we had a huge thunderstorm.
The blustering, lighting up the whole sky, less than a second before the thunder comes, strobelightish, windowpane rattling, apocalypse nowish kind.
Very spectacular, but not really conducive to a good night's rest.
And it started just as I was finally falling asleep.

This morning I woke up to a dramatic pewter sky and yet more lightning, not finding the whole going to work thing very appealing (and I'm still in holiday mode anyway). But as soon as I was dressed, the trees were already highlighted with golden sunlight against the slightly lighter, but still threatening, sky. As I got into my car (now in need of a wash, again), the sun was peeking through the dripping leaves and the clouds were rapidly disintegrating into wispy strands in a baby blue sky. By the time I got to the highway, there wasn't a cloud in sight, the sun was beating down from a rich, cobalt-blue sky and the road wasn't even wet anymore.

All this in the space of about half an hour.
That's sunny SA for you.