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it's like rain. a rain storm. monday sunny skies. tuesday light rain. wednesday it rains all day - we call that a rain storm. thursday a rain storm with lightning? we call that a thunderstorm (or less commonly lightning storm): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderstorm

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Yeah, we never get thunderstorms.

Wow. It never occurred to me that this was possible in the US. I've seen lightning three days out of the last five.

We have fireflies (or lightning bugs) in the back yard, too. I remember there being a lot more of them when I was a child, though.

It was a very weird experience moving to the West Coast. One day there was some thunder off in the distance and I realized I hadn’t heard it in 6-7 months. Didn’t even know I was missing it.

>Wow. It never occurred to me that this was possible in the US. I've seen lightning three days out of the last five.

Likewise, you learn something new every day :-)

https://xkcd.com/1053/

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