How often is there a storm?

[Acevy]

I need lightning for batteries. Been waiting for ages.

[-Na Shagul-]

It's pretty random, but in my games most of the thunderstorms happen during fall with a few others happening in summer. I don't remember getting many in spring

[God Taint]

Thunder storms can happen in summer and fall. I think it's mostly random how many you get, and how many lightning strikes happen each storm.

It's not guaranteed that lightning will strike your rods either, just a very good chance.

You should regularly check the traveling cart too, because she can sell battery packs as well.

[I Kinda Fail]

I think it rained like twice in spring, and we've had like 3 thunderstorms on the 15th-ish of summer so far. I forget if summer or fall has more; seems like irl summer has more storms, but in-game it's fall.

[NotThatHarkness]

Not very often in my current game. No rain in Fall, maybe 3 days in Summer. I noticed something curious in the beta though (SP). 3 times in Fall I decided to quit the game, but checked the weather before quitting to desktop and the weather forecast was for rain. All 3 times when I loaded up the game again the weather forecast changed to a sunny day. Very strange. I didn't think weather forecasts changed when you loaded the game up. (The weather forecasts were always correct; the next day was whatever the forecast said it would be.) I never tried loading up the game over and over trying to get a rainy day. I'm skeptical that would work.

[Acevy]

Originally posted by FallenMerick:

Thunder storms can happen in summer and fall. I think it's mostly random how many you get, and how many lightning strikes happen each storm.

It's not guaranteed that lightning will strike your rods either, just a very good chance.

You should regularly check the traveling cart too, because she can sell battery packs as well.

Oh I'm in spring right now so I guess that's why. If I use rain totems during summer/fall does it increase the chance of a storm?

[De_faulty]

Originally posted by Acevy:

Originally posted by FallenMerick:

Thunder storms can happen in summer and fall. I think it's mostly random how many you get, and how many lightning strikes happen each storm.

It's not guaranteed that lightning will strike your rods either, just a very good chance.

You should regularly check the traveling cart too, because she can sell battery packs as well.

Oh I'm in spring right now so I guess that's why. If I use rain totems during summer/fall does it increase the chance of a storm?

The weather forecast will say if a thunderstorm is coming or not, besides, I had 2 or 3 thunderstorms during spring

[Warlord]

As far as I've seen, every single time it rained in summer/fall, it was a thunderstorm. Very annoying my first year when I had no recipe for a lightning rod...

Had 4-5 storms per season, too.

[Ǵ̶͓̂͑lí̴̤̀̄́tcĥ̸]

Tons for me during fall, like every 5 days there was a storm. 1 or 2 total during Summer.

[NotThatHarkness]

Originally posted by Acevy:

Originally posted by FallenMerick:

Thunder storms can happen in summer and fall. I think it's mostly random how many you get, and how many lightning strikes happen each storm.

It's not guaranteed that lightning will strike your rods either, just a very good chance.

You should regularly check the traveling cart too, because she can sell battery packs as well.

Oh I'm in spring right now so I guess that's why. If I use rain totems during summer/fall does it increase the chance of a storm?

Don't use rain totems the last day of the month. It won't work to cause rain on the 1st. I've never had them not work on other days, but I thought there was a chance they could fail.

[AmazingChocobo]

Can u spam rain totems for them?

[Bob of Mage]

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Weather_data

This page from the wiki appears to give a look under the hood for weather. If it is correct then you can use this to understand what increases the chance for stormy weather.

[Ǵ̶͓̂͑lí̴̤̀̄́tcĥ̸]

Just got one in Spring.