what is another name for a thunderstorm?
345941
To me they are noise makers.
1083933
That kind of lightning are usually called  cloud to clud lightning, and  occurs  at very high altitudes between clouds at different altitudes (1,000 ft,).  there's no thunder because  the charges are  not  making ground like when they touch  earth.
537133
It depends on the current weather pattern and the stability of the atmosphere.  Typically thunderstorms occur in the late afternoon and evening in most places because the heat from sunlight along with humidity and other meteorological factors.  But all of this can also occur at night.  It just seems that the atmosphere needs to remain unstable once the sun goes down, which usually doesn't happen, but is never out of the question.
503525
Lightning is formed by the convective processes that occur in a thunderstorm.  You'll have the warm, moist suface layer of air with the cold, dry layer of air aloft.  The natural balance of the atmosphere makes the warm air want to rise.  This gives strong updrafts of air can help create charge differences (warm humid surface air rises and cools, condenses into waterdroplets which have different charge the ice crystals in the upper atmosphere) which can cause lightning.\n\nIn a snowstorm (or winter in general) the surface layer is cold with low dewpoints (dry), so you generally won't find these updrafts and convection found in summer thunderstorms to create lightning.\n\nHowever sometimes the conditions can bring enough warmer air, moisture and instability to cause lightning and thunder.  Check out the link provided for more in depth details.\n\nThe thunder from thundersnow is not heard at very large distances, which makes it seem even rarer.  Snow absorbs a lot of the sound, so it will only be heard about a mile or two away.
1165023
thunder....thunder....thunder....Thunder Cats...HOOOOOOOO!\n\nI'm all about that
434074
clouds some times get charged to positive or negetive. the opposite charge is develped on the earth over which the cloud stands. if the cloud is close enough and the charge is good enough especially when water content in the air is high there will be an electric discharge fron the cloud to the earth. this is lightning and the noise of the discharge is thunder
73482
A thunderstorm, or an electrical storm, is a form of weather characterized by the presence of lightning and its attendant thunder. It is usually accompanied by copious rainfall, hail, or, on occasion, snowfall in the winter months (which is sometimes known as thundersnow).\n\nThunderstorms can happen anywhere in the world, with the greatest frequency in tropical rainforest areas, where they may occur nearly daily. In temperate regions, they are most frequent in summer, though can occur in cold fronts at any time of year.\n\nThunderstorms form when significant condensation, resulting in the production of a wide range of water droplets and ice crystals, occurs in an atmosphere that is unstable and supports deep, rapid upward motion. This often occurs in the presence of three conditions: sufficient moisture accumulated in the lower atmosphere, reflected by high dewpoint temperatures; a significant fall in air temperature with increasing height, known as a steep lapse rate; and a force such as mechanical convergence along a cold front that will focus the lift.\n\nThunderstorms have had a lasting and powerful influence on early civilizations. Romans thought them to be battles waged by Jupiter, who hurled lightning bolts forged by Vulcan. Thunderstorms were associated with the Thunderbirds, held by Native Americans to be a servant of the Great Spirit. In more contemporary times, thunderstorms now have taken on the role of a curiosity. Every spring, storm chasers head to the Great Plains of the United States and Canada's prairie provinces to explore the visual and scientific aspects of storms and tornadoes.\n----------------------------------------------------\nU can also find more here: http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/edu/storm/
380715
Rain.  you are describing the dewpoint.
842890
storm= arashi (pronounced ah/rah/she) 嵐\nfire=hi (pronounced he)火
835940
Tornado, lasts minutes.  Thunderstorms hours, Blizzard hours to a day or so.  Hurricane, day to several days.
576897
u should just getused to it. Iused to getscared when microbursts happened(i live in pheonix arizonaandthose happen a lot here) microbursts are like huge gusts of wind sweep over the ground andthey are very strong. What I did to getover it was just igror it. there is an infinite number of things that are worse than lightningand thunder. distract urslelf fromitby playing video games or watching tv or going on the computer.
304804
I'm in Hampton Roads, VA and we're having one of those gorgeous Spring thunderstorms.  My apartment complex is real junk so none of the gutters work very well and water is overflowing and shooting everywhere.  Of course all the trees are a really nice soft green color, I think because we had a unfortunately mild Winter.  It's so dark, but the lightning is hard to see through all this rain; however, there's some really excellent thunder.
352022
You wouldn't call it lightning, because that's what you see. You could call it "the sound of lightning" but we are generally pretty lazy - and that's too long!
981155
It's pretty impossible to answer that definitively, but an educated guess (of mine) is that the number is easily over 90%, and probably closer to 98%.\n\nFirst I'll assume we define a thunderstorm as any storm that produces lightning and (therefore) thunder.  That's easy enough, except for how you then define what, exactly, constitutes an individual "storm".  That can get very tricky.  But enough of that...\n\nThe (NWS) criteria for defining a t-storm as severe is one that produces wind gusts of 58mph or more, and/or hail of 0.75" in diameter or larger, and/or a tornado.\n\nhttp://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/#4.2\n\nNot many t-storms produce any of those conditions, percentage-wise.\n\n(Great question, IMO, BTW)
485683
Lightning is a powerful natural electrostatic discharge produced during a thunderstorm. This abrupt electric discharge is accompanied by the emission of visible light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation. The electric current passing through the discharge channels rapidly heats and expands the air into plasma, producing acoustic shock waves (thunder) in the atmosphere.\n\n\nThe saying "lightning never strikes twice in the same place" is false. The Empire State Building is struck by lightning on average 100 times each year, and was once struck 15 times in 15 minutes.\n\n\nk.m.
988117
there's a phenomena called Virga, that occurs frequently that could be the cause of this...Virga is rain that doesn't actually reach the surface, and its possible if the thunderstorm just doesn't have enough moisture in them..but..most likely..is that the thunderstorm isn't mature enough to start raining yet..and will most likely start a few miles down the road\n\nThunder occurs anytime theres lightning, and Cloud to cloud lightning is very frequent, and isn't affected by the amount of precipitation in the cloud (although more precip will mean a stronger storm).\n\nYou're most likely hearing the thunder caused by cloud to cloud lighting..and the storm is not yet strong enough to begin precipitation at the surface
1055515
Yes.  Now stop asking questions about thunderstorms.