Interesting Thunderstorms Facts

When there is a storm outside the window, you do not want to go out. And this is the right decision because this natural phenomenon is usually accompanied by strong winds, powerful downpours, and lightning strikes, so it can be simply not safe to leave the house. But nobody forbids to admire the riot of nature.

Facts about Thunderstorms

• Australian Tiwi Islands are notable for the fact that due to the coincidence of a number of weather conditions over them, a storm cloud formed and then disappears every day. Pilots of local airlines even use it as a reference point.
• Lightning is not uncommon during thunderstorms, and they sometimes split the air with such force that they create a powerful shock wave, which can even break glass in windows.
• This natural phenomenon happens not only on Earth but also on other planets of the solar system that have the atmosphere.
• Another interesting fact about thunderstorms is that this natural phenomenon happens not only on Earth but also on other planets of the solar system that have an atmosphere.
• The country with the least thunderstorms is Egypt. On average, they occur here once in two centuries.
• And the country with the greatest number of thunderstorms raging in the sky is Argentina, which is in South America.
• During thunderstorms, lightning strikes several times in the same place, contrary to a well-known saying.
• A lightning strike of record length during a thunderstorm was recorded in the United States. The dazzling energy discharge of about 300 kilometers long sparkled for eight seconds.
• Every minute on our planet, there are about 1,500 thunderstorms accompanied by thunder and lightning.
• A powerful storm can bring up to a billion cubic meters of water, but only a small part of the moisture falls to the ground in the form of precipitation. Everything else remains in the atmosphere when thunderclouds disperse.
• One of the most severe thunderstorm facts is that the most powerful tornadoes, whose speed can, in theory, be supersonic, are formed exactly under a thunderstorm front.
• The energy generated during a storm is comparable to the explosion of a powerful nuclear bomb.
• Seven out of ten thunderstorms in the world are fixed in the equatorial belt of the Earth.
• Cases of observing such a natural phenomenon as ball lightning are very rare. And almost all of them were recorded precisely during the thunderstorm.
• Thunder is a sound wave from the air, literally torn by lightning. In a powerful thunderstorm, you can sometimes hear it at a distance of several tens of kilometers.
• According to statistics, thunderstorms are less likely to begin shortly before sunrise, and most often – in the middle of the day, just in the afternoon.
• Near the North and South poles, this natural phenomenon is extremely rare.
• Thunderstorms occur about ten times less frequently on land than on the water surface.
• Thunderclouds are formed when part of the water particles in them is in the liquid state, and part of it is frozen and solid. By the way, they are formed only from heap clouds.
• Almost always, thunderstorms come in warm seasons when the air temperature above the surface is above the freezing point. But sometimes, several times a decade, there are also snowstorms, which rage in winter. But this is rare because their formation requires the coincidence of a very large number of meteorological conditions.

These were the thunderstorm facts we gathered after an in-depth study of the phenomenon of a thunderstorm.