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The result is the nearly daily development of clouds that produce thunderstorms. For example, "Lightning Alley"—an area from Tampa to Orlando—experiences an extremely high density of lightning strikes. As of 2007, there were as many as 50 strikes per square mile (about 20 per km 2) per year.
No thunderstorms: 2 Isolated thunderstorms. Lightning is very infrequent, 1–5 cloud-to-ground strikes in a five-minute period. 3 Widely scattered thunderstorms. Lightning is infrequent, 6–10 cloud-to-ground strikes in a five-minute period. 4 Scattered thunderstorms. Lightning is frequent, 11–15 cloud-to-ground strikes in a 5-minute period. 5
Take Shelter is a 2011 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Jeff Nichols and starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain.The plot follows a young husband and father (Shannon) who is plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, and questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself and his increasing worries over having paranoid schizophrenia.
Thunderstorms, showers possible through Tuesday in L.A.; how much rain has fallen so far? Noah Haggerty, Rong-Gong Lin II, Grace Toohey January 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Cities at risk of severe weather Monday include Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia.A cool breeze from the Atlantic may limit severe weather in New York City and Boston to perhaps later in the day ...
While the summer of 2023 has been a season of smoke for parts of the northern United States, it has been a season with many thunderstorms for much of the Plains and Midwest.
Single-cell thunderstorms form in environments of low vertical wind shear and last only 20–30 minutes. Organized thunderstorms and thunderstorm clusters/lines can have longer life cycles as they form in environments of significant vertical wind shear, normally greater than 25 knots (13 m/s) in the lowest 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) of the ...
According to the CDC there are about 6,000 lightning strikes per minute, or more than 8 million strikes every day. [11] As of 2008 there were about 240,000 "lightning strikes incidents" around the world each year. [12] According to National Geographic in 2009, about 2,000 people were killed annually worldwide by lightning. [13]