[FRIAM] Why there was so much lightning in D.C. and Baltimore Wednesday night - The Washington Post

[Roger Critchlow]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/07/17/dc-lightning-onslaught-explained/


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:

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.


Maybe Nick should augment his meteorology with some "supernaturalistic"
explanations?

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