I enjoy thunderstorms now as an adult - as a kid, I remember cowering in my bed and just wanting it to stop, but now I think they’re so cool.

After a long, hot, very dry summer where the lawn would shrivel up and dry in hours without the sprinklers, the rainy season has begun - in spectacular form, complete with hailstorms, downpours, lightning shows, and deep, booming thunder.

But I got a surprise tonight, just after putting the kids to bed - once the cable came back after a brief-ish outage, a scrolling notice came across the bottom of my screen - there is a tornado watch. Here. In Rota.

I haven’t seen a tornado watch in 10 years, since I moved away from the midwest - and of course it would happen tonight, the first night B is gone. I’m guessing this is from the sucking force of the beers being downed in Munich tonight.