What would happen if we didn't have any storms?

Storms don’t have a purpose. They are the result of a combination of forces (mainly due to heat and friction) acting over water or land. I imagine it might be possible for a planet with an atmosphere to not have storms, given exactly the right conditions (its distance from the sun, speed of rotation, revolution around the sun, etc.), but there will always be storms on Earth.

Precipitation’s essential, but storms are unnecessary. Storms are caused by many conditions (e.g. an air mass thunderstorm is very different from a squall line), but they’ll always occur due to factors in the atmosphere and on the planet’s surface.

^^^ Right, storms provide water to sustain all life forms on the planet. No rain, no ocean, no lakes, no rivers, no plant life, no animal life, no humam life.
It’s called the trickle down effect. lol

I am going to give an answer that is illogical to most, but considering no one has the one true answer if you believe it it most certainly could be true. To date there is no such test which either proves or disproves the “idea of it”, the earth being flat was also just an “idea”. And if “it” turns out different there is no harm in exploring all ideas.

Kind of depends on what counts as a storm.

If you mean the big, bad “tropical” variety, including hurricanes, these actually affect a pretty small portion of the earth’s land surface. Here’s a map that shows the paths and severity of every tropical storm recorded in the past 150 years. As you can see, these are confined to relatively few coastal areas. The whole continent of South America rarely gets any. Same for Africa.

The areas that do get regularly whacked are certainly changed by them, but not always in bad ways. Some delicate coastal ecosystems can be wiped out by a big storm, but other ecosystems may become more divers. For instance, big storms take down quite a few trees. This creates openings in forests and lets light into areas that may have been shaded for centuries. Opportunities are created for new plant species to colonize these gaps, and animal species will profit from the new accessible food source, etc. This is very different from the clearing that results from a fire or clear-cut logging because it creates little pockets of diversity among the existing old growth.

So if there were none of these big storms, much of the world would be unaffected, but a few coastal areas would have more stable, but less varied ecosystems.

Rain is essential to life.

Thunder and lightning can cause fires which clear out vegetation and make way for new growth.

Snowpacks held in mountains are essential for watering in warm, dry times.

I don’t know, it’s kind of a weird question…..everything would be the same, except we wouldn’t have storms. They don’t have a “purpose” they just occur as part of nature and weather patterns, etc. We only see them as so terrible because we’re dumbasses that build cities on the edge of the continent or below sea level, what do you expect to happen.

Storms do have a purpose. They mix the air in the atmosphere which helps regulate the temperature. They dump a lot of precipitation that will flush debris from streams and rivers that would otherwise clog them.

Storms are also how moisture and heat are advected. With no storms that means no moisture, in earths case. And no storms could also mean no friction or heating of the earths surface in general. So we wowouldn’t be alive anyway.

Stupid smartphones. My computer crashed so I promise I will produce more grammatically correct posts in th future.

In Earth’s history storms have been very beneficial for example by distributing life over large distances.

Lightning may be the reason we even exist, or continue to any how. There is a lot of science being questioned about lightning and it’s link to blue jets and sprites, it may well be what stops the radiation layers outside of the atmosphere form devastating the planet. There are many theories but it’s fact electrical current has a purpose so we may not know why but Thunderstorms have a reason somewhere we just have theories maybe one of them is correct but each theory has a purpose. They are very responsible to Atmospheric pressure and wind circulation and they have cooled incredibly hot areas down. Everything has a purpose somewhere in the chair.