Living in FL I certainly don’t sit outside and watch the thunderstorms. Especially now that I am in the Tampa area, which has an incredible amount of lightening strikes.
Rain and rainstorms are two different things to me. I remember when I was little I used to love being out in the rain, catching rain on our tongues, playing in the rain. As I got older that lost its appeal. I guess I worry about my hair getting messed up and being uncomfortable if my clothes are wet. Worry is really too strng of a word, but for lack of a better one I will use it.
Rain can be the perfect excuse to catch up on sleep, catch up on DVR, and cuddle with the person you like to cuddle with if you have one of those people in your life. Although, it can also be a great alone time. Just be with yourself, work on a project. All those things work for me.
Rain for many days in a row is annoying to me. I feel robbed. One day no big deal. A short rainstorm, especially no big deal, but days and weeks of constant grey skies and rain makes me understand why Ray Bradbury wrote so much about trying to find sun domes and a child missing out on the one sunny day in years on a distant planet. Also, a problem is when it rains (not to be confused with a thunderstorm) consistently on my day off. Five Saturdays in a row of rain can be frustrating. Some parts of the US do have statistical likelihoods of having wet weekends, some even more specifically can narrow down to a high likelihood of rain on Saturdays.
Thunderstorms in FL don’t bother me during our summer season (except for my fear of the lightening). They are predictable, short, only happen for a few months, and the rest of the day is blue skies and palm trees. When I lived in TN the thunderstorms pissed me off if I was at home, because they often were accompanied by tornado warnings, and they interrupted my TV shows to track the storms.