OK, it starts getting dark like a real storm is coming in, then it starts just plain raining.
Come downstairs - it isn't raining on that side of the house.
Have you ever had that, different weather from different windows?

And what in the ever-loving blue-eyed world is the sci-fi book where at some point, the protagonist looks out a window or a door and the weather keeping him indoors isn't there, so he bolts, and later somebody is blamed for forgetting to extend the faked storm to the other side of the house?

Then, with no warning nearby lightning, something hits RIGHT HERE - I guess *somebody* has to be under the first lightning bold of a thunderstorm but it's never been me before!