There's no thunder in Ireland? Why?

Obviously thunder is caused by snakes, and St Patrick removed those.

(Coming from the Midwest where thunderstorms are so common as to just be assumed every rainstorm is one, it must be weird …)

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padjo 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is thunder in Ireland, it’s just rarer than in much of the US. I’d imagine it’s due to the prevailing weather patterns.

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xeromal 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm from Georgia where summer thunderstorms are extremely common and we had ones that were so explosive that candles would vibrate off the fireplace mantle. I moved to SoCal and i'm always amused when a small storm comes by once a year and people freak out.

I miss those storms man. Nothing like sitting on the porch and watching them roll through

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kstrauser 5 hours ago | parent [-]

As we called it in Missouri: good sleeping weather.

I can nap through a tornado, j tell you.

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rbanffy 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Now hear this: we have almost no mosquitoes. Sometimes I joke I killed one and drove them back into extinction.

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xeromal 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Same here hoss. Rain on a tin roof is unmatched.

	▲	kstrauser 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That would put me into a coma.

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rbanffy 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I grew up in São Paulo, Brazil. The thunderstorms there are GLORIOUS!

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basisword 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There is. "In 2024, Ireland recorded almost 3,400 cloud-to-ground lightning flashes (lightning strikes), marking a moderately stormy year, but well below the exceptional year of 2023, which set a record with more than 9,000 cloud-to-ground lightning flashes detected."[1]

[1] https://www.meteorage.com/thunderstorm-report/ireland-lightn...

	▲	rbanffy 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's 10 per day for the whole of Ireland. Ireland isn't small enough people would see them that regularly.