Scientists in the UK shows that it is not just the conditions here on Earth, that determine how much thunder and lightning we get - Sun's magnetic field also has a great impact.
"As a rule, the solar field shifts every 10 to 15 days, which means that the field of the Earth, as a rule, are bent in one direction or another. Every time the field of the Earth is tilted, it provides different places for different intensity of particles, the change in the ionization of the atmosphere, which makes it harder or easier to trigger lightning," says Matthew Owens of the University of Reading.
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.....and lightening heats up the water particles in the clouds and which makes rumbling sounds we call thunder.
Nexis Rae Gauley
onestly I am not at all surprised at the impact the sun has outside of solar flares since we know what dramatic effect the moon has on the oceans and theoretically people too, but it doesn't underscore how awesome this is
MJBridger
he Sun is so full of mysteries, wonders and surprises to science (this varying magnetic field that affects our weather, the unexplained extreme heat of the coronasphere, the power of the solar wind and it's mass ejections, it's near sphericity, and the feint young sun paradox, to name but a few).
And this is only the star next door!
