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View Poll Results: In which climate are you more likely to see lightning and hear thunder?
Vostok Station (in the form of thundersnow) 0 0%
Arica, Chile 14 100.00%
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Old 05-24-2014, 07:42 PM
 
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In both of these climates, thunderstorms are extremely rare but which is more likely to get a freak thunderstorm event?

A) Vostok Station (In the form of thundersnow of course)

Vostok Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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B) Arica, Chile (the driest climate on earth)

Arica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 05-24-2014, 08:32 PM
 
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Arica for the low latitude.
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Old 05-24-2014, 09:38 PM
 
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Arica is at least WARM and it gets clouds, despite being extremely dry. So it's more likely to get thunder and lightning (without the rain)...
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Old 05-25-2014, 12:12 AM
 
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Vostok station, because it obviously has all the ingredients required for thunderstorm formation, including but no limited to: heat, humidity, cold fronts bringing sudden change in temps, and different airmasses colliding, usually from the the warm Derp Sea interacting with the cooler dryer air from the Penis Plateau.
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Old 05-25-2014, 12:48 AM
 
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Vostok station, because it obviously has all the ingredients required for thunderstorm formation, including but no limited to: heat, humidity, cold fronts bringing sudden change in temps, and different airmasses colliding, usually from the the warm Derp Sea interacting with the cooler dryer air from the Penis Plateau.


Sounds plausible...
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Old 05-25-2014, 01:07 AM
 
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Vostok station, because it obviously has all the ingredients required for thunderstorm formation, including but no limited to: heat, humidity, cold fronts bringing sudden change in temps, and different airmasses colliding, usually from the the warm Derp Sea interacting with the cooler dryer air from the Penis Plateau.
Hot damn. I've never thought of it that way. Guess I have never been surrounded by BOTH people who have the braves to make sexual references in public AND are somewhat-geographically literate....
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Old 05-25-2014, 06:37 AM
 
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Vostok Station will never have a thunderstorm, it's impossible! Arica... I think it has already happened in there, right?
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Old 05-25-2014, 08:08 AM
 
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A quick glance at some statistics would easily answer this question. Arica, Chile has recorded thunder on numerous occasions, but averaging less than once every 5 years.

Vostok station has never recorded thunder.

I'd go as far to say that this is another useless banal troll thread.
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Old 05-25-2014, 11:08 AM
 
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I wonder if the outermost parts of Antarctica can see a thunderstorm every now and then.
For example the Antarctic peninsula perhaps? Probably not every year, but maybe once in a decade or so?

Vostok not- that's for sure though.
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