Electric storm

Posted by ESC on July 21, 2003

In Reply to: Electric storm posted by ESC on July 21, 2003

: : : : Who was the first man to call a thunderstorm that?
: : : : It couldn't have been that long ago...

: : : Who said it was a man? Hmmmm?

: : Another reason to grab those handbags.

: I heard it called an electrical storm -- West Virginia in the 1950s.

Electric, adj., goes back to 1646.(The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology by Robert K. Barnhart (HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1995.)