A thunderstorm in 45 degree weather in January. Don’t thunderstorms need a lot of heat to form?

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A thunderstorm in 45 degree weather in January. Don’t thunderstorms need a lot of heat to form?

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No. They need powerful updrafts. These are generally created by differences in the heat in certain air currents. If one air current is 45 degrees Fahrenheit and one is 55 degrees Fahrenheit, you get similar updrafts to what you would get if they were 80 and 90.

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