Thunderstorm

Quality:

Thunderstorm - a storm characterized by the presence of lightning, usually accompanied by strong winds and often produce heavy rain and sometimes snow, sleet, or hail, but some produce little precipitation or no precipitation at all. Article “Thunderstorm” in Simple English Wikipedia has 48.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 21 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.55 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3829^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3268^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6498^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9356^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 4712^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Thunderstorm” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (4712^th place) and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Thunderstorm”, its content was written by 46 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3268^th place) and edited by 3172 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6498^th place).

The article is cited 112 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 19882 times in all languages (8666^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #238 in December 2016
• Global: #1424 in May 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1143 in March 2012
• Global: #2708 in November 2014

There are 51 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Thunderstorm		95.6612
2	Arabic (ar) عاصفة رعدية		86.1654
3	Swedish (sv) Åska		74.3379
4	Tamil (ta) இடிமழை		74.1421
5	French (fr) Orage		73.4012
6	German (de) Gewitter		73.1626
7	Finnish (fi) Ukkonen		57.9356
8	Simple English (simple) Thunderstorm		48.4439
9	Dutch (nl) Onweer		48.2733
10	Russian (ru) Гроза		43.8

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thunderstorm		8 857 842
2	German (de) Gewitter		2 705 840
3	Russian (ru) Гроза		2 135 127
4	Spanish (es) Tormenta eléctrica		1 822 242
5	French (fr) Orage		1 481 663
6	Polish (pl) Burza		1 226 016
7	Swedish (sv) Åska		747 844
8	Dutch (nl) Onweer		657 149
9	Portuguese (pt) Trovoada		598 791
10	Italian (it) Temporale		506 381

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thunderstorm		26 223
2	German (de) Gewitter		12 134
3	Russian (ru) Гроза		8 104
4	French (fr) Orage		6 715
5	Dutch (nl) Onweer		5 269
6	Spanish (es) Tormenta eléctrica		3 540
7	Polish (pl) Burza		2 861
8	Italian (it) Temporale		2 049
9	Swedish (sv) Åska		1 894
10	Chinese (zh) 雷暴		1 295

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Thunderstorm		817
2	German (de) Gewitter		436
3	French (fr) Orage		173
4	Swedish (sv) Åska		171
5	Dutch (nl) Onweer		170
6	Russian (ru) Гроза		138
7	Polish (pl) Burza		123
8	Finnish (fi) Ukkonen		118
9	Italian (it) Temporale		100
10	Spanish (es) Tormenta eléctrica		65

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Thunderstorm		4
2	Persian (fa) توفان تندری		2
3	French (fr) Orage		2
4	Italian (it) Temporale		2
5	Dutch (nl) Onweer		2
6	Catalan (ca) Tempesta elèctrica		1
7	Czech (cs) Bouřka		1
8	Simple English (simple) Thunderstorm		1
9	Tamil (ta) இடிமழை		1
10	Arabic (ar) عاصفة رعدية		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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