Question

Is rain always accompanied by thunder and lightning? It not in which season do you get more of thunder and lightning?

Answer 1

A: The electrical activity that manifests itself as lightning is generated by the airborne water.

The thunder is sound waves resulting from the extreme heat of the lightning.

As the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration explains, the three ingredients necessary for a thunderstorm are moisture; rising, unstable air; and a lifting mechanism, like hills or mountains or just the collision of masses of warm, wet air and cold, dry air.

When water vapour condenses into a cloud and rises into colder upper regions of the sky, some of it turns into ice crystals, usually with a positive charge, and some becomes water droplets, usually with a negative charge.

When the charges are strong enough, the electricity is dis­charged as a bolt of lightning.

While some lightning often pre­cedes rain, the main event occurs as a downdraft starts and rain or other precipitation falls.

Eventually, the downdraft over­comes the updraft and the storm dissipates, along with the light­ning.

Lightning benefits the earth, keeping its electrical charge in balance and generating protect­ive ozone, the National Severe Storms Laboratory explains

Answer 2

Rain is not always accompanied by thunder and lightning. We get more thunder and lightning with rain in rainy season which occurs due to the friction of two clouds that rub together to produce lightning with a sound of thunder.