Why does it seem to storm almost only at night?

Question

I live in Chicago and its rare for it to thunderstorm during the afternoon. It always storms during the night hours, why?

Answer 1

It storms more in the afternoon than in the morning because the sun (in addition to creating all of the earth's weather) gives tremendous amounts of energy to weather systems making them 'stormy' as opposed to just 'rainy'. In reality the afternoon / early evening hours are the most common times for a storm (during the warm weather seasons at least)

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Answer 2

Probably because the thunderstorm cells had developed far to the southwest of Chicago when the sun was up and therfore more energy in the atmosphere. It is always more favorable for thunderstorms to develop to the south and west of Chicago. And by the time these t-storm cells make it to Chicago it is night time.

Answer 3

Imagine that from 1:00 until 3:00 is the hotest parts of the day. When it gets to be about 5:00 the air cools fast and the air becomes unstable. That is when the storms develope.

Answer 4

Because of the cooling of the air around you during the evening,the water vapor will condenses because of the temperature change.This condensation forms clouds,resulting in your night time storms...tom science

Answer 5

usually winds blow the storms in the night because the winds are stronger at night due to the moon pulling on lake michigan and causing stronger winds

Answer 6

because GOD knows when to relax the body , i think everybody needs to shut the body down you can do several things: read the bible, meditate the mind, watch telvision, spend time with family, and most of all get some restttttt!!!!!! you'll be surprise of how many people don't get there 8hrs. of sleep so "God" knows when to shut the body down!!!!

Answer 7

The wind

Answer 8

Most probably of the local wind patterns.

Answer 9

so that way you cant see anything and the weather changes in the evening