Yes, there are cultural/language differences defining weather events. Plus, all the microclimates - distance and terrain. I live along the Töss in a sort of valley near Wülflingen, and I think we tend to get wind whipping along the river.
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Had some rain this morning, but it’s stopped now and gone windy instead.
Sat in the dark all forenoon, wet, dark, miserable. Had written off the day but now the sun shines 
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Got windy enough we lost electricity for a few seconds. That or the TV box blew up and caused it because it’s now dead as a dodo.
I took the dog out at 10, and it was cloudy, but no rain, and I just noticed the sun. Going to be on and off rain all week, I think.
yes what a pita.
Short lived joy here, getting darker by the minute, very strong, wet rain, loud thunder, absolutely no wind. At least no wind.
My big beautiful lavender is beginning to hate this. Maybe that’s why the newly planted ones don’t bother to make a move.
According to the OOD there’s no such thing as a storm without strong winds.
storm
a violent disturbance of the atmosphere with strong winds and usually rain, thunder, lightning, or snow.
The ‘to me’ was the important point you missed there.
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yeah but you must allow us to be amused that of all things in a storm to you wind is an optional extra. 
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We get loads of thunderstorms here and rarely get wind, we had one this afternoon in fact.
I hope not!
I read an article earlier this year that forecasters were expecting this summer to be ‘brutal’ heat-wise. I had been wondering what they’d been smoking, given the last few weeks, but perhaps August is what they meant.
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Thunderstorm - the Swiss type.
Thnder, lightning, dark, heavy rain and heavy win. The trees are not amsed and I’m a bit worried for them.
I hate wind and detest storm.
Perfect for the lionesses, in about 15 minutes.
Lots of rain rain rain. Tomorrow there will be snow at 2400M. Reminds me of the summer of 2016, when we had a sodden June and snow in July, courtesy of a frigid Scandinavian airstream.
About an hour ago we had a thunderstorm, normally they drift from West to East but it stuck around with occasional lighting around 50 km away in random directions.
Now it has gone quiet and drifted away to Lake Constance
Crazy here. We get torrential - seriously crazy heavy - rainfall on hourly basis. Thunder but no lightning.
Wanna bet it will stay quiet where fireworks are concerned?
edit: would have lost that bet had anyone taken me up on it. Ah well, being dark and August first it is acceptable. I hope they won’t have any left overs tomorrow.
We seem to be getting all your weather here, in fact if I want to know how the weather will be in a few hours I read what you guys are bitching about.
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You are welcome.
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I spent 3 weeks in July at my house in Scotland to get away from the intense heat and humidity in Basel. July on the coast of Fife is usually a bit cold and rainy so I was surprised to get 21c+ and sunshine for a lot of it. I was walking by the Water of Leith at Edinburgh absolutely boiling in a thin cotton shirt and jeans one day.