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What area of the United States has the least amount of Lightning storms?

2007-06-09 12:46:54 · 5 answers · asked by P S 2 in Science & Mathematics Weather

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in order to get a good view of where the least amount of lightning occures see this The flash rate map
http://www.srh.weather.gov/srh/jetstream/mesoscale/tstrm_intro.htm

2007-06-09 18:47:46 · answer #1 · answered by NWS Storm Spotter 6 · 0 0

Along the west coast south of San Francisco all the way to San Diego. This results because most storms that hit that part of the coast fail to develop towering cumulus clouds...those big tall (up to 45,000 feet) clouds that typically spawn lightning.

However, when these storms continue eastward and hit the mountains near Tahoe and other parts of that range, orthographic lifting, where the winds are lifted by the mountains, will create cumulus clouds. So lightning over the mountains is way more commonplace than over the coastline.

2007-06-09 13:03:37 · answer #2 · answered by oldprof 7 · 0 1

particular, the 'contemporary' immigrants (final a hundred thirty years or so) have long gone to the cities. Early on, Germans, Swedes, and so on. went to the agricultural areas to alter into farmers. yet as quickly as we grew to become industrialized, immigrants got here to this usa to get jobs interior the cities.

2016-10-08 21:38:46 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Pacific Northwest...

2007-06-09 13:02:28 · answer #4 · answered by Invisble 4 · 0 1

Alaska?

2007-06-09 13:40:46 · answer #5 · answered by Mark 6 · 0 1

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