Is it true that the river stops the storm ?

Hello !

Yesterday there was no storm at my place because everyone said it was stopped by the river , and I don't believe it , what has the river to do with the storm ? What do you think about it ?

It is not the river itself but the reservoir. It is slow to heat up and slow to cool down. Over a body of water the convective movement of air is different to that over land. In order for such an effect to occur the river must be quite wide, it must not be some kind of "after storm".

A single discharge does not carry much energy at all. Even if it were possible to store all the energy of the discharge, it would only last for a very short time. The voltage and current are high, but the time is very short. It might be enough for a month, but only to power a single light bulb.

A river no, but a lake YES. I live on a lake and have often observed the effect,
so to speak: 1) the storm does not pass, 2) it changes its direction of travel.
This was most evident when the famous White Scud was moving in from Mikolajki.
I think it was the jeź. Probardzkie saved my village.
salute
andre

ankowalik wrote:

The river no, but the lake YES. I live on a lake and have often observed the effect,
so to speak: 1) the storm does not pass, 2) it changes its direction of travel.
This was most evident when the famous White Scud was moving from Mikolajki.
I think it was the jeź. Probardzkie saved my village.
salute
andre

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A river too, e.g. the Vistula 60 km from its mouth to the Baltic (it's wide). I know because I live by it and more than once I have seen a storm go perpendicularly towards the Vistula and then something like bounce off it and after some time it came back or moved along the shoreline.

That's right: WIDE. "My" lake is about 500m.

Hello.

ankowalik wrote:

River no, but lake YES.

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It's true.
It just so happens that my house is surrounded by three lakes:
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It's been a long time since there has been a thunderstorm in my locality that has arrived close enough for thunder to be heard 3-4 seconds after the flash. The lakes have a huge impact on this, with the result that most thunderstorms 'go sideways' or end with a few flashes of lightning. It may seem like a thunderstorm should slide between these lakes, but it doesn't (and once a thunderstorm has passed through the lakes, as long as it doesn't 'shoot out' it doesn't leave the area).