In other circumstances, high humidity makes people feel uncomfortable. Nevertheless, despite how weather makes people feel, feeling the weather is a form of observation and it is as important during the night as it is during the day. Such observations include feeling temperature, humidity, rain, wind, dust, and vibrations associated with thunder. However, it is not as obvious as it may seem. Lightning and thunder activity reveal an abundance of information about thunderstorms including location, severity, precipitation cascades, types of precipitation, speed and direction of the storm's movement, evidence of wind, cloud structure and the extent thunderstorm activity.
Structure is the most important observation to note from lightning effects of thunderstorms.
Internal lightning activity such as sheet lightning can reveal the shape of the thunderstorm cloud structure. Lightning can reveal precipitation intensities, base structures such as shelf clouds, the extent of the front, side and rear anvils, and the downdraughts from the storm as revealed by wind blown precipitation. For those who believe in light green tinges, I have noted night time hailstorms to reveal greenish effect due to the lightning. In normal cases, lightning will appear pinkish. The difference in structure of hailstorms must have an impact on various light frequencies such that green dominates.