Re: Near-Constant Lightning/Thunder
Posted by Mike_Doran on 7/17/2009, 2:28 pm
By observation when an tropical storm (this time (yes a she that's a typo) Dolores in the EPAC lost it's organization, simply by observation the number of thunderstorm strikes nearby increases.  This is not to say that the frontal system wouldn't have produced some thunder but relatively not as much.  It's by observation from watching strike counts and then watching strike counts associated with when a tropical storm loses its organization. 

This then is consistant with the Stanford paper which measured the actual fields that a tropical storm is like a capaciter in terms of trapping charges and when the virtual plates of this capaciter lose their area the capacitance runs to zero and as it does electrons are freed or put another way voltages increase.  This increases the potential differences involved and makes it simply easier for charges in nearby thunderstorms to short to ground.

Lightningstorm.com's free page actually shows counts associated with strikes in the CONUS, but I like using the UW lightning network because it shows the storm as well. 
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