Do cities make thunderstorms worse? Not necessarily, but urban heat is having an impact
Since the invention of weather radar, anecdotes have swirled about how a thunderstorm changes as it approaches and moves across a city. The stories...
August 6, 2023
1:44 AM
Since the invention of weather radar, anecdotes have swirled about how a thunderstorm changes as it approaches and moves across a city. The stories involve a storm suddenly splitting and reforming downwind of a city or, in a related way, suggest that a thunderstorm is producing more rain immediately downwind of a city. These concepts have long been a source of interest to people studying mesoscale meteorology, which covers weather systems that are between a few miles to several dozen miles in size.
Sean Sublette Lee Newspers