Ode to a lightning bolt

Where are you Oh Odin's thunder

With your head up in the clouds

Well isn't it a wonder

Lightning would strike

And you'd be caught under

That bolt from the blue

That has riven this old tree through

And split from its sides its ship-length timbers 

Going from the bells

Swinging in the tower

tolling in the wind with all of its power

Where are you now Mr Lightning Bolt?

Impulsivity is your nature

You feel the jolt

The knee jerk reaction

You can feel it in your knees

It will rain tonight

You can hear it in the trees

Get your feet back down to earth

And ground yourself in its dirt

Positive and negative and neutral

All your electrical impulses fuel

This storm, this tension

This heat

Then snap, of course

The live wire sparked

The sky just shorted

And found the easiest possible route

Where are you now the dogs have stopped barking?

Now the moon has stopped arcing.

The lights have stopped lightning.

And the drains have stopped draining.

All the water of the raining

Tell me where are you?

In my love spectroscopy in my love epiphany

Cacophony of kaleidoscopic free verse

Has anything changed?

Is anything worse?

Or are you just,

Down to earth?

StormZ

 

List of named storms (Z)

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Storms are named for historical reasons to avoid confusion when communicating with the public, as more than one storm can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists. For tropical cyclones, names are assigned when a system has one-, three-, or ten-minute winds of more than 65 km/h (40 mph). Standards, however, vary from basin to basin. For example, some tropical depressions are named in the Western Pacific, while within the Australian and Southern Pacific regions, the naming of tropical cyclones are delayed until they have gale-force winds occurring more than halfway around the storm center.

This list covers the letter Z .

List of named storms

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

References

Storms[edit]

Note:  indicates the name was retired after that usage in the respective basin

• Zack
  • 1992 – tropical storm that remained over the open western Pacific Ocean
  • 1995 – Category 4 equivalent typhoon that struck the Philippines and Vietnam, killing 110 people
• Zaka
  • 1996 – weak tropical cyclone that passed near New Caledonia, causing minor damage
  • 2011 – tropical cyclone that dissipated northeast of New Zealand, causing no damage
• Zane
  • 1996 – Category 3 equivalent typhoon that crossed the Ryukyu Islands
  • 2013 – developed and dissipated between Queensland and Papua New Guinea
• Zazu (2020) – tropical cyclone that brought heavy surf to Niue and hurricane-force wind gusts to Tonga, but caused no significant damage
• Zeb (1998) – Category 5 equivalent typhoon that killed 122 people when it struck Luzon
• Zelia
  • 1998 – tropical cyclone that developed near Cocos Islands
  • 2011 – severe tropical cyclone that brought heavy rainfall to New Zealand as an extratropical cyclone
• Zeke
  • 1991 – passed over the Philippines before hitting Hainan with minimal damage
  • 1992 – tropical storm off the southwestern Mexican coast
  • 1994 – remained east of Japan
• Zelda
  • 1991 – left heavy damage in the Marshall Islands
  • 1994 – powerful typhoon that took a large, circuitous track through the western Pacific Ocean
• Zena (2016) – killed two people while passing near Fiji
• Zeta
  • 2005–06 – remained out at sea; only the second Atlantic tropical cyclone on record to span two calendar years
  • 2020 – a late-season Category 3 hurricane that made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula and then in southeastern Louisiana
• Zia (1999) – moved across Japan, killing nine
• Zigzag (2003) – tropical storm that made landfall in northeastern Mindanao
• Zita
  • 1997 – killed 345 people when it struck southern China
  • 2007 – passed through French Polynesia
• Zoe
  • 1974 – moved along the coast of Queensland
  • 2002  – strongest South Pacific tropical cyclone on record in terms atmospheric pressure; affected the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, and Rotuma
• Zola
  • 1990 – Category 3 equivalent typhoon that struck Japan, killing 3 people
  • 1993 – tropical storm that made landfall in Japan causing some flooding
• Zoraida (2013) – killed 44 people while moving through the Philippines and Vietnam
• Zorbas (2018) – Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone that formed and reached Category 1 equivalent strength
• Zosimo (2004) – moved through the Marshall Islands
• Zuman
  • 1987 – short-lived and weak storm that did not approach any islands
  • 1998 – struck Espiritu Santo as a Category 1 cyclone

See also[edit]

• Tropical cyclones portal

• European windstorm names
• Atlantic hurricane season
• Pacific hurricane season
• Tropical cyclone naming
• South Atlantic tropical cyclone
• Tropical cyclone

References[edit]

General

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• Padua, Michael V (June 11, 2008). "1945–1997 JTWC names for the Western Pacific Ocean and South China Sea". Typhoon 2000. Retrieved October 11, 2009.
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• Padgett, Gary (2003). "A review of the 2002 tropical cyclone season for the Northern Hemisphere". Australian Severe Weather. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
• Padgett, Gary (2004). "A review of the 2003 tropical cyclone season for the Northern Hemisphere". Australian Severe Weather. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
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• Young, Steve (2014). "A review of the 2013 tropical cyclone season for the Northern Hemisphere". Australian Severe Weather. Retrieved May 28, 2014.
• Young, Steve (2015). "A review of the 2014 tropical cyclone season for the Northern Hemisphere". Australian Severe Weather. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
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By the lights of the big city

Traffic lights in the window
Lightning disco in the sky
I'm stuck in the mirror
Between thoughts of you and I

Too much self reflection
Doesn't make a nice guy
When you forget the important things you know
Like when you forget how hard to try

Lightning bolts crack the black glass sky
All that I thought I knew
Now I'm stuck in the mirror
Between thoughts of me and you

How do I separate myself from the lightning?
Creation and destruction
In the mirror's reflection
Dividing like the tram lines
Two sides of the road
Keep your Gods under different signs
Your Odin for your odes
Your Thor for ....who knew?
There were certain doors you should not walk through

Now the lights have changed from red to green
And little bells of rain ring on the window screen
And the bells of church towers are ringing in the wind
As the storm the summer promised
Comes to shatter summer dreams

Its blowing like a tempest
Come to deal out its punishment
No mercy for the faithless
Its tongue is like a serpent
Forked fiery flames
With fangs ready to strike
The ocean is no match for its electric pike
That snap and whip and maim
As it hurls its sea at us
The buoys which float in the sky are pounded into dust

It is lathering up its hands
Showering us with blood
Clapping its salty palms
Churning water into mud
Washing and rinsing up to its arms
In a Noah's flood

Slinging down all from the heavens
Sent from an all powerful judge