What kind of conditions are favorable for thunderstorms?

Question

What kind of conditions are favorable for thunderstorms?

Answer 1

When the surface of the earth begins to heat,  air begins to rise.   You need plenty of available moisture too.    Soon clouds develope and developed is aided by cold air high above the earth's surface.

This process is called convection.  You can also have as one person said,  cold air moves over warmer air, and that is called advection.   Sometimes though there is no real change in the atmosphere with regards to cold air aloft,  but another mechanism may cause these storms and that is maybe positive relative vorticity.

Answer 2

A cold air mass moving into a mass of warm, humid air.

Answer 3

The initial requirements for the development of thunderstorms are as follows.

(1) the presence of warm, moist air through a considerable depth of the atmosphere.

(2)An unstable atmosphere(lapse rate should be steep) for saturated air extending to greater heights.

(3)A strong lifting mechanism to force air aloft to considerable heights.