[rudybjr]

Who said there wasn't a danger of lightning? I'm just going by what I experienced. I'd like to see you stay out on a tarmac during a rain storm....BTW "lightening" refers to the fading of a color.

[Jetliner]

Originally Posted by rudybjr

I'd like to see you stay out on a tarmac during a rain storm

You need to tell us what you mean by storm here. A heavy rain fall is a storm, but may not have lightning. So in that case, yes, I've spent lots of times in rain storms. I worked in central Florida. Those are daily summer events. I've even worked in the remnants of hurricanes, or the edges, on more than one occasion. As long as there is no lightning in the area, we work.

And if you want to get technical, normally when you have a bad storm, the lightning will occur during the beginning of the storm, but the rain can last much longer. It lightnings due to the first minutes or hour of water falling equalizing the static between the atmosphere and the ground. That's why during a hurricane it will lightning at first on the leading edge, but as the storm is passing over, you get tons of wind and rain, but no lightning. By that point the static has equaled out.