No storms club 2018 Season

[==MeteoMan==]

Thunderstorm days are virtually booger all here, maybe 2-3 this year, and no actual thunderstorm as such since September 2016.

[ChezWeather]

On 15/08/2018 at 12:12, CheeseAndOnionCrisps said:

Thunderstorm days are virtually booger all here, maybe 2-3 this year, and no actual thunderstorm as such since September 2016.

Same here of course, a truly dreadful storm season, i thought last year was bad but this year has reached a new low!

So far i've recorded a mere 2 thunder days, with no overhead thunderstorms at all.

The last overhead storm to hit here was way back on July 20th 2016. I did witness the Sep 13th 2016 storm but that moved north over the Peak District so wasn't technically overhead here. 

[Another Kent clipper]

Oh September 13th 2016.  The last proper one in Manchester too.  A real MCyes

[Scott Page]

Late august and still a loyal member of this club

[IanR]

worst year for thunder ever,  one thunder day here so far in 2018, a new all time low count, 

its been building up to this a while,  with the thunder counts getting ever lower every year, 

 next year 0 thunder days , would not bet against it  

[Mokidugway]

7 minutes ago, IanR said:

worst year for thunder ever,  one thunder day here so far in 2018, a new all time low count, 

its been building up to this a while,  with the thunder counts getting ever lower every year, 

 next year 0 thunder days , would not bet against it  

Hoping  to rectify my drought  with some Arizona action this weekend

[mushymanrob]

ridiculous that such a hot summer should produce zero storms here... heard thunder a couple of times, but that doesnt = a storm.

[Another Kent clipper]

10 hours ago, Mokidugway said:

Hoping  to rectify my drought  with some Arizona action this weekend

I'd love to see one in the western dry states (is arizona west?).  It's been a long time since I witnessed a rain'less' thunderstorm.  It's been a long time since I witnessed a thunderstorm in fact

[Mokidugway]

27 minutes ago, Another Kent clipper said:

I'd love to see one in the western dry states (is arizona west?).  It's been a long time since I witnessed a rain'less' thunderstorm.  It's been a long time since I witnessed a thunderstorm in fact

Indeed it is would expect some elevated  storms with good lightning  which are very dramatic around the canyon rim 

[IanR]

I once read a theory that active sunspot periods increase thunderstorm activity , could this be the reason ?  

We are in a low sunspot phase

[Another Kent clipper]

This lack of storms thing has gone on for tooo long. It is actually painful.