Things heat'n up your way? I went to BT one time last summer and it was 100+ I didn't like that much at all. Coolest thunder storm I ever came across was driving northbound 90 about 10pm. It was a solid storm of continuous lighting strikes from Wyola to Billings. The folks in Columbus mentioned the storm also, so it extended even further west then I went that night. The whole Beartooth range was sure putt'n on a show that night. I think it may be like 4 years ago now when I was fortunate enough to witness that. I think I could have stayed on the road without running my headlights that night as that's how frequent the lightning strikes were hitting.
Normally they just go overhead from where they form at the foothills. This one was building up with a strong upward blast of pretty warm dry air over my head. In the last picture it had moved pretty quickly to the eastern plains and that's where they really begin to get mean. You can see the lighting in them really intensify when they move out over the plains. So far they've pretty good to me from where I live.B U T FULL but the damage those puppies can cause!
