Snowmen fall from heaven… unassembled. – Author unknown

It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows, listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning. – Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter XLII

The thunderhead collects out over the distant plain giving a show of what is to come. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife