If you want more summer thunderstorms, go to Windenburg. I find the weather there matches up with Northern New England, a stone's throw from the rocky coastline, really well. The weather patterns are different in each world. Windenburg is more like northern Europe and also like coastal Maine, with mixed deciduous and evergreen forests, lots of rocks large and small, mostly rocky coastline, cold, wet, sodden springs, and summers that are a mix of heatwaves and terrific thunderstorms, with many plain old rainy days intermixed. Some years here, it is hot and either humid or dry in summer, but more often humid, but summers here have been known to be dark, damp, and chilly nearly the whole summer, too. One just never knows. One year my sister came from out of state, and we had reserved a ferry ride to an island clambake, and so naturally in August, we rode for an hour across the North Atlantic with freezing rain spitting in our faces. Some fun.. :#