Where do you live, Frank?
That's sounds like classic Florida weather during the summer monsoon season. Tampa used to get 90 thunderstorms a year, but the contour seems to have shifted further South. There's only one town in India that gets more.
You can see them starting to build up around noon, 8 mile high anvil- topped clouds, and right about the time you are getting ready to drive home from work, a rain of Biblical proportions, but only for a few minutes, so the statewide drought doesn't seem to get any better.
And then, the sun comes out and the asphalt steams like the plains of hell. The ground is bone dry by the time it gets dark.
Damn, I miss Northern California.