<p>How many different storms, thunderstorms, snow storms, hurricanes, typhoons, what have you, are happening in the Earth our planet at any given point in time. Furthermore, I imagine they are over the water mostly, is this true?</p>

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2020-01-01T22:41:06.970Z
Hi. Unfortunately, what ever number someone comes up with is going to be just a guess, and worse, the _actual_ number is going to constantly change.
Spencer
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2020-01-02T06:47:34.627Z
what is a storm for you is not a storm for me,what you call a thunderstorm-snow storm-rain storm have nothing to do with a storm unless the wind speed is at storm force or abowe storm force https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale
trond hansen
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2020-01-03T10:17:56.550Z
An answer for thunderstorms: "Worldwide, there are an estimated 16 million thunderstorms each year, and at any given moment, there are roughly 2,000 thunderstorms in progress." From https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/thunderstorms/ (no idea how they got these numbers)
Jean-Marie Prival
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How many storms are happening on Earth at a given moment?
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# How many storms are happening on Earth at a given moment?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-01-01)

How many different storms, thunderstorms, snow storms, hurricanes, typhoons, what have you, are happening in the Earth our planet at any given point in time. Furthermore, I imagine they are over the water mostly, is this true?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Hi. Unfortunately, what ever number someone comes up with is going to be just a guess, and worse, the _actual_ number is going to constantly change.  
> **username_2**: what is a storm for you is not a storm for me,what you call a thunderstorm-snow storm-rain storm have nothing to do with a storm unless the wind speed is at storm force or abowe storm force https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale  
> **username_3**: An answer for thunderstorms: "Worldwide, there are an estimated 16 million thunderstorms each year, and at any given moment, there are roughly 2,000 thunderstorms in progress." From https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/thunderstorms/ (no idea how they got these numbers)  

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