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??? There are fairly often thunderstorms here. At least 3 per year, I'd estimate.
by oncallthrow 1y ago
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There are fairly often thunderstorms here. At least 3 per year, I'd estimate.
- ofalkaed 1y agoHere in Minnesota we have had at least 6 in the past month including a thunder snowstorm, I would call "3 per year" as rare, not fairly often.
- eesmith 1y agoThey were almost daily in summer as a kid in Florida. https://www.weather.gov/tbw/RainySeason https://www.weather.gov/tbw/RainySeason for reasons. https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/topics/thunderstorms https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/topics/thunderstorms shows I got about 80 per year. I missed the storms when I moved away. Silicon Valley's weather was so boring. UK's at least has some variability at a timescale smaller than weekly.
- sph 1y agoNonsense. I have lived in UK (London) for 13 years, and I'd say I saw on average one thunderstorm a year, and they last just a few minutes [1]. Now back in Italy, it's like every other week during the warmer months. Anyway, the post provides more information than N=1 anecdotes. UK is just too far north for them. 1: I quite like thunderstorms, and I remember the last time there was one where I lived in N. London. It was a single instance of thunder last autumn, lasted all of 2 minutes. Quite underwhelming to say the least.
- verzali 1y agoThere are thunderstorms in the UK and at a least a few in any place per year. But compared to some places further south they are rare. Incidentally, the UK has the highest rate of tornados per area in the world.