hey, we don't allow your kind on the missouri threads.
when i moved here, i was (and still am to be honest) freakin' amazed at some of the **** that goes on concerning the weather ... stuff i've never witnessed in my life. i HAVE gone to work and said, "ya know, if it continuously lighteninged and thundered (five seconds in between, for 18 hours) ALL freakin' day back home, we'd be waiting for the clouds to part and the four horsemen to appear announcing the apocalypse." (i also still freak out -- a whole lot -- when i think of the water moccasins swimming in our rivers, lakes and streams down here.)
but, the one thing i have learned from the natives here is, you can't control the weather ... and you're just wasting your time and sanity worrying about it.
welcome to missouri. if you don't like the weather, don't worry, it will change in five minutes.