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What's the location closest to the equator, almost NEVER gets thunderstorms? My definition of "ALMOST NEVER" means an average of once a decade or less. It has to be so rare that the locals literally do not know what it is when they hear thunder and see lightning. My guess is somewhere in the Middle East? or maybe Northern Chile?
Also interested in the reactions when a thunderstorm occurs for the first time in like 25 years. If an entire town of people who've literally never heard thunder or seen lightning in their lives, what would or could they mistake it for?
Last edited by AdriannaSmiling; 10-10-2013 at 01:20 AM..
Lime seems to get them about once a year on average. Looking at the NASA lightning density charts there are locations in the eastern Sahara Desert that may almost never get thunderstorms. But that's at about 20-24°N. Other areas look to be parts of the eastern Pacific Ocean near the South American coast at latitudes as close as 8° from the equator.
I think that could be a place on the North Peruvian coast, where the Andes are further away, so that storms from the Andes very rarely drift in that area.
yes, in Lima in the last 20 years there has been thunderstorms just a couple of times, I remember El Niño of 1998 when everyone freaked out because of this "thunderstorms"
yes, in Lima in the last 20 years there has been thunderstorms just a couple of times, I remember El Niño of 1998 when everyone freaked out because of this "thunderstorms"
by the way Lima is in the 12th parallel
Read the link and it seemed that people freaked out quite a bit (I know some Spanish but am not fluent). Did locals know that it was a thunderstorm or did they mistake it for something else (like a bomb going off)?
Where I live, we only get about one or maybe two thunderstorms a year. Pretty rare but people still know what it is when we hear thunder and see lightning. Most people stop what they are doing to watch and listen to the storm. A few do get scared. I, being a weather geek, of course love thunderstorms and wish we got a lot more of them.
Read the link and it seemed that people freaked out quite a bit (I know some Spanish but am not fluent). Did locals know that it was a thunderstorm or did they mistake it for something else (like a bomb going off)?
Where I live, we only get about one or maybe two thunderstorms a year. Pretty rare but people still know what it is when we hear thunder and see lightning. Most people stop what they are doing to watch and listen to the storm. A few do get scared. I, being a weather geek, of course love thunderstorms and wish we got a lot more of them.
Yes they freaked out a lot because thunderstorms are quite rare, in the article says that in an event of the 19th century people thought it was the end of the world
From the lightning strike map, most of the ocean ON the equator never sees thunderstorms.
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