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So the past few days it's been really hot here and there's a side effect of that. South of where I live, the elevation drops a lot into a river valley, well the weather kind of stalls out there and builds storms easily so after a few days of being hot, the storms build up and make their way north to me. By the time they get here they can be pretty nasty. Last night it was lightning out so I checked out Weather.com to see what was coming and it didn't look like much. A few minutes later, all hell broke loose. They released 3 severe weather advisories and there was a nasty patch of storm heading right for me. As it approached everything got still then I noticed the TV antenna that's outside was sparking (there's aluminum rods at the top with coax cable running halfway down the pole that's cut, I'm guessing the antenna was concentrating the electricity in the air and sending it to ground but since the coax cable is cut, it was jumping from the coax cable to the pole creating a spark) and then the rain came. But that was it. The storm completely faded out as it approached and skirted just west of me. Never heard any thunder, only saw lightning and the rain was barely enough to wet the porch. Sometimes those weather guys can be completely wrong. I thought I would share this because of the sparking antenna, I've never seen anything like it before.