Have you had thunderstorms in your hometown this year?
341271
We've had several the past month and a half, which is unusual for Central California this time of year (or so I'm told... I'm new here.) The national weather service said a few were severe but I've seen much worse in Virginia and Iowa. We did have a couple with marble sized hail though. Enough hail fell to coat the ground almost an inch deep. A lot of the locals thought it was snow because of how soft it was when they went back outside to see it closer.
242381
Lightning and thunder can happen while snowing, but it's quite rare.  It has to do with the fact that cold air holds less moisture than warm air.  The more moisture a cloud contains the bigger the storm becomes.  That's why thunderstorms are common in the warm weather months.  In the winter, less moisture is available which does not promote the forming of clouds that support thunderstorms.  However, with the right dynamics in the atmosphere, especially with nor'easters or lake effect snows, thundersnows occur.  Here in north central Indiana we had a thundersnow during an event that produced heavy snow a couple years ago.  I've only seen it once though in the 23 years I've lived here.
1165665
Not bad at all. We have summer thunderstorms that are worse with more severe localized windows. Florida needs the rain, so in the words of President Bush.... Bring it on!
93090
During Hurricane Katrina - I didn't have to use all of these but could have if the part about my house didn't make 'em understand:\nThe ceiling partially collapsed. I have to remove it and the carpet from the house today.\nI am afraid to drive over power lines and I can't move the trees and the houses from the road anyway. \nMy baby-sitter quit because her house is gone.\nI was up all night because the military helicopters and vehicles kept shining lights in the house and kept me up. \nI have to watch for looters trying to steal my stuff.\nThere is insulation all over the floors and caused my son to have an asthma attack. \nThe lack of water dehydrated my kids and two of them are now in the hospital.\nI have to remove my storage building out of my elderly neighbors house. \nI have to help my other neighbors find their houses and it's contents.
782760
there from my hometown?\n\nlol
583893
Yeah! I love em. I'm a weather freak. I'll stand outside until it starts hailing hard or I'm gonna get struck by lightning. But if they're at night when I'm trying to sleep, and I can't see much, it's not so fun. Especially if hail is hitting your window with 60 mph wind gusts. when I get out on my own, I wanna be a storm spotter
810906
Not much where I live now, but I just moved this year from the Logan Square neighborhood in Chicago and holy crap we had it rough there.\n\nMy upstairs neighbor got mugged in broad daylight on a major street walking home from the train.  Gang bangers were killing each other all the time.  A friend of mine got beat up just because he happened to walk past some gang banger fighting with his girlfriend.
1133106
I'm not quite sure w/ whom you are comparing NC's thunder to. I can tell you that the thunder & lightning here are no different than anywhere else except for the fact that we have a lot of them.\n\nThe amount of strong storms is attributed to the fact that warm moist air masses move in from the Gulf & off the Atlantic coupled w/ cooler air from the NW. This combination, at times, can make for some really bad thunderstorms.
461908
We are having bad storms tomorrow too so a few things I would do is make sure you have an area to hide, clean and ready, have shoes ready, and have a radio or t.v. ready to find out information...
333225
THUNDERING TYPHOONS.......:)
517589
Yes, we have floods, but I can't think of any tornadoes of any significance, ever. We also have earthquakes.
780379
spark,lightning,thunder,shower
451978
yeah thts where i lived two years ago they have fun snow storms!
1055515
Yes.  Now stop asking questions about thunderstorms.
1025048
Woah!  Stay inside, try to have your car in an elevated area or a garage, and put sandbags near your doors if water leaks under them.  We're supposed to get crazy thunderstorms and hail this afternoon, with tons of rain, too.  Good luck!
374123
Hi, it's raining and thunder storming here in Texas tonight, and I hate this kind of weather, I don't know why I get so freaked out and scared when it's like this but I do,,,,,hope i don't ruin my computer being on here in this storm...bye
469003
The volcano always does it for me, they are awesome, but lightning comes close behind, the sheer raw power of nature.\nNine months ago we had a strange phenomenon, it seemed that lightning came from the earth and sky at the same time, the sky exploded in a brilliant orange flash, that shook the ground, it frightened almost everyone and they rushed indoors. Unfortunately although I had anti surge protectors on my computer for both telephone and power, the computer was knocked out, and had to be repaired the next day.