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  Ten things to know about thunderstorms that strike at night Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-07-23 20:32 -0600
    Re: Ten things to know about thunderstorms that strike at night jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-07-24 03:21 +0000

#509090 — Ten things to know about thunderstorms that strike at night

Ten things to know about thunderstorms that strike at night
> http://phys.org/news/2015-07-ten-thunderstorms-night.html

> Thunderstorms that strike by night are a mysterious phenomenon.
> Scientists are burning the midnight oil this summer in search of some
> answers.
>
> What they find as part of the project—called Plains Elevated
> Convection at Night ( PECAN)—may ultimately help improve forecasts of
> these sometimes damaging storms.
>
> To learn more, the National Science Foundation (NSF), which supports
> PECAN, spoke with Roger Wakimoto, NSF assistant director for
> Geosciences, Ed Bensman, program director in NSF's Division of
> Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, and Howie Bluestein of the
> University of Oklahoma, a principal investigator in PECAN. All are
> atmospheric scientists.
>
> 1. Why is there interest in nocturnal thunderstorms?
>
> Wakimoto: Anyone who has been stirred out of bed in the middle of the
> night after hearing thunder knows that intense storms occur
> frequently after the sun sets. Indeed, a substantial fraction of the
> total precipitation in severe weather events can be attributed to
> these evening events.
>

   There's a lot more folks:
> http://phys.org/news/2015-07-ten-thunderstorms-night.html





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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ten things to know about thunderstorms that strike at night

1. Stay indoors.

The end.


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