What USA city has the most thunderstorms?

[chadtm80]

chad - I know this is off topic but when did you change your avitar?? Laughing here! lol

lol.. its been a couple weeks now. It suits me well. trust me. LOL

[vbhoutex]

Cochise County as a whole is the core of the Summer monsoon of the SW US.

great info steve! ill definitely have to mark it as a place to check out,.

We have a lot here in Southeast Texas. If it's thunderstorms you're looking for, you won't be disappointed.

how about houston, texas? seeing that it never freezes there, do they get good thunderstorms ALL year around?

Yes Houston gets pretty good thunderstorms almost all year around. In fact we are going through one right now!! We very seldom freeze here, but if you want to get away from humidity this is not the place. And since it is a city of 5M you have to know the crime and traffic are what you would expect for a city this size. Is it a good place to live. Sure is imo, but you have to be willing to accept the bad with the good, just like anywhere else.

[Scott Patterson]

I did find this:

Nearly 2000 thunderstorm cells are estimated to be present over the planet at any given time. It is estimated that globally there are 16 million thunderstorms each year. In the United States, central Florida has almost 100 thunderstorm days annually. Other areas with large numbers of thunderstorms include much of the Gulf Coast region and the Rocky Mountains and adjacent High Plains. Kampala, Uganda may hold the world record for thunderstorms, averaging 242 rumbly days each year, though portions of Indonesia may have more. Between 1916 and 1919, the city of Bogur averaged 322 thunderstorms per year. There the rainy season could also be called the noisy season.

http://sky-fire.tv/index.cgi/thunderstorms.html

Anyway, the highest Colorado mountains usually have t-storms every day from mid-June through early September. They seldom have them in winter.

What is unusual about the Rockies t-storms is that most summer snowstorms are also thunderstorms. Seldom does is snow in July and August without being accompanied by thunder, at least in my experience and from what I've seen. I've never seen snow in July and August without thunder. Outside the mountains, thunder snow seems fairly rare, but does occur, just not often. In the mountains it occurs all the time.

[jasons2k]

FL has the most, here are some good maps:

http://www.evergladesvillage.net/atlas_ ... unders.jpg

http://www.lightningsafety.com/nlsi_inf ... tning.html

[simplykristi]

I disagree with that, Scott. I've been in Denver CO and there have been definite thunderstorms with lots of lightning and thunder. I've also been to Grand Junction CO which I has a lot of dry thunderstorms.

Kristi

[Tennesseestorm]

I was going to say pretty much anywhere in the southeast for "year round" storms.... in the winter, pretty much the southeast is the #1 spot for storms.. not much action anywhere else.

According to our local NWS, we average about 45-50 days with thunderstorms per year and we are in the "upper southeast". Points south of here get even more on average....

[Aslkahuna]

Sierra Vista averages 65 days with thunder and a total of 86 thunderstorms during those days of which 80% of both occur during the monsoon which runs from July 3 through September 7th on average. Most of the rest occur during the runup to the monsoon in June and the wind down in late September and early October.

Steve

[Scott Patterson]

I disagree with that, Scott. I've been in Denver CO and there have been definite thunderstorms with lots of lightning and thunder. I've also been to Grand Junction CO which I has a lot of dry thunderstorms.

Not sure which part you are disagreeing with? I was speaking only of thunder snow storms being rare outside the mountains, not thunderstorms. Denver and Grand Junction do have thunder snow storms, but they are fairly rare.