I am talking specifically about severe rainstorms. Thunder doesn't seem to matter but heavy rainstorms do if dense clouds get somehow in the path of the beam. I have had rather heavy rain without dropouts which I explain by the main clouds hanging out of the path of the beam. In fact I don't regularly trade via satellite but I often monitor the condition of a satellite link. If need be, I could go on satellite. I have some plans to do this in the future. Interruptions due to weather are so infrequent that I really haven't given it much thought about how to handle this. Orderly shutdown should not be too big a problem as the dropout never seems to occur all of a sudden. I kind of consider the risk of interruption rather on par with cable. In fact cable interruptions, albeit equally rare, will occur without warning and last longer.
