Storms need the correct ingredients to happen but once ready to go they’re worth watching. That’s the problem it’s all about the what, the where and the when. Once you’re in the right location (Tropics, Sub-tropics are best) look for the telltale signs. Towering cumulus with hot humid atmosphere. Once these clouds become cumulonimbus with self-sustaining upwards growth, this growth continues. Once into the freezing level ice crystals form which are agitated by violent updrafts causing the ice crystals to collide with each other generating small electrical charges which when sufficient agitation the sum of these millions of small charges add up to lightning
