aelyrsenn said:
or it could just be spring,nothing unusual at that time of year....
It could. But I think that there are more storms in last few years than before. Once in time we had one or two big one in a month during the spring, but now we have one big almost every week. And it is not so number of storms, but it seems to me that really number and intensity of the lightnings is increasing. Just yesterday in Belgrade, Serbia (just next to Croatia) I saw lightnings that goes across all the sky, not just one part. After that I was in a busy and very noise shopping mall, but the thunders were heard also inside like a really big cannonade.
Last week I saw something magnificent, lightning striking in the top of the building of 35 floors, and then to the ground, I was standing only some 800 meters from that point, so there was no thunder, just short and very load "boom" sound.
I just wanted to say that as far as I can see there are more lightnings and they are stronger than before.