notch said in his tumblr blog that if lightning hits a pig it turns into a zombie pigman , i have got to see this

Are you kidding? If you are not i gonna see that too xD

zombie pigmen have 20 hp. that is the double of a zombie.

But they drop cooked pork when killed, so health recovery is possible.

Just an FYI, if you see several pigmen in a group, walk away, they all attack if you hit just one of them.

Fyi if you set a pig on fire you now get cooled porkchop from it

When it is raining does there come lightning automatic?

The Minecraft wiki currently only states that:

Thunder and lightning will also strike.

But does not say either way.

However, the wiki also states that rain and thunderstorms have different effects on light level modification so I am assuming they occur independently. Whether they play on a luck/random factor or that they just occur after it's been raining for x amount of time is unknown.

Weather info can be found here: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Weather

Just played through a thunderstorm, 6 days long. Became impossible due to the shear amount of monsters in the area around me. Visibility was low too.

Oh great. Anybody know if weather can be turned off??

God i wish i could see lightning hit a creeper, id have my money on it turning into 20 tnt and with x2 power...not a great vision but what else do you think it'd be?