Severe Weather?

Question

I have a theory that severe gales, rains etc tend to happen more often at night than during the day. What do you think? Any stats regarding this.
Second part of the question, if I am right about this, why is it so?

Answer 1

Around 5-6pm is normally the peak of severe weather. But I think the wind and heavy rain happens more at night because the individual storms-normally more severe weaken in the late evening and form together into a big complex that can cover many states over night causing most people to just get rain and wind.

Answer 2

You can look for statistics and for historical weather records with the National Weather Service. Severe weather tends to appear, in my experience in the afternoon and early evening. It is really a matter of conflicting weather patterns, as in swirling and mixing high and low pressures. This can happen at virtually any time, but temperatures tend to change at around dawn and sunset most dramatically.

Answer 3

I agree, I thought about why this might be for awhile but then came to the conclusion that because it is winter, there is much less daylight hours than during the summer. For example here in Los Angeles at the Winter Solstice, we receive about 10 hours of daylight. That leaves 14 hours for night and thus more opportunity for rain at night. The farther north you go, there is even less daylight during winter so storminess is proportionally greater.

Answer 4

it actually should happen more during the day as the sun ejects energy in the atmosphere which therefore build up cloud witch then brings the rains

Answer 5

more clouds about at night