Zeus, Indra, Thor and the relatively unknown Perun have been gathering up the volts and sending them forth at speeds of up to 220,000km/h, causing the town’s dogs to be either cowering under houses and tables or running around the yard barking at the offending thunder.

The gods also bought with them buckets and buckets of water that they’ve been tossing about with reckless abandon.

It could also be because of a trough of low pressure that is deepening over eastern NSW as a high pressure ridge extends from the Bight towards the Tasman sea.

This trough of low pressure will move eastwards over the weekend and turn itself into a low pressure system off the coast.

This doesn’t explain the lightning of course, that’s all to do with Mount Canobolas mixing up all the winds.

Mountains act as barriers to the warm, lower winds which are pushed up the side of the mountain into the cooler air in the upper atmosphere.

All that warmer, moist air swells and eventually forms into clouds which then become charged before the rain falls and the lightning strikes.

Over the weekend there is a chance of showers mainly in the afternoon and evening as those winds build up the cloud cover during the day.

If we’re lucky temperatures may even reach the high 20s on Sunday.

mark.logan@ruralpress.c om