How many thunderstorms do you want per year?

That's something a Jew would say...

The 50-65 a year we get in Norman is good to me. Slightly more might be nice, tho.

About 50-60 would be good enough for me. All of them must have frequent visible lightning bolts, none of this 100km away / 1 bolt per minute bullshit. Summer is the optimum time for storms, nothing like a hot day ending with evening storms. I'd have a summer maximum, followed by spring and then autumn. 

50 storms a year is a 10^googolplex improvement on the status quo here 

50-60 sounds good to me; Beercules and I had the same thought, though we have different preferences regarding distribution across the year. Once a week is good enough; I also think the majority of wet days should be thunder days, or at the very least have heavy downpours. There should be some variety within these thunder days: some where the storm is brief but intense, some where it just keeps rolling over the course of a whole evening, and some that are accompanied by hail or severe weather to get all the adrenaline pumping. I'd like about one 1"+ precip event per month on average, and two or three 2"+ events per year.

Not counted in the thunder day total are the occasional days that are dry but there are storms close enough in the area to make the sky dark and ominous and still produce a good light show.

My dream climate is a bit wetter in winter than in summer, with wet day counts to match, but summer wet days are more likely to have thunder than winter wet days so the number of thunder days per month is pretty constant across the year.

20-25

6-15 would be plenty

Well, it's an issue of quantity vs. quality for me, but I guess my bottom line would be 50 (an average of about one per week). I'll go with 71-100 for the purposes of the poll.

Looks pretty similar to Bangkok, although BKK has a dual peak pattern with a shorter dry season:



Not a bad total, but a number of sites around the Strait of Malacca (e.g. Singapore) receive well over 150 thunder days per annum. Although I would say that the quality here is not that great. Not a lot of ground strikes or loud thunder, mostly just cloud-to-cloud or very distant. Plus I've never seen hail here. Funnily enough, by far the most impressive thunderstorm I've ever seen was actually in Christchurch of all places! A really intense storm with hail the size of golf balls.

I said 120 back in 2018, but now I'm thinking more in the 70-100 range. I care more about quality than quantity (though I still want quantity). At least 7/8ths of these thunderstorms should be severe in some sort of way too.

From a local Darwin perspective....

www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-28/is-darwin-the-lightning-strike-capital-of-the-world/10606576