<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/07/17/dc-lightning-onslaught-explained/" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/07/17/dc-lightning-onslaught-explained/</a> <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Apparently there was a doozy of a thunderstorm last night in DC. So the Capital Weather Gang decided to 'splain it, leading to this paragraph:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Evening values of shear got a boost from the arrival of a large pocket of spin in the middle atmosphere, called a meso-convective vortex. The vortex slipped in from the west, triggered by storms earlier in the day and hundreds of miles to the west of the D.C. area. Think of this as the ghost of former storms, teleported to a different region, and assisting with the organization of a new crop of storms.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Maybe Nick should augment his meteorology with some "supernaturalistic" explanations?</div><div><br></div><div>-- rec --</div></div>
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