Usually thunderstorms come in from the west....?

Question

what does it mean in one summer in nyc of 1997 a thunderstorm came in from the east, what does that mean, I know it is unusual, but I wonder how that can possably happen

Answer 1

A thunderstorm is a convective formation where enough heat and humid air makes the convection to rise to the top of the troposphere. Due to the low adiabatic cooling of humid air, the phenomena doesn't stop as in usual cumulus cloud formations.
Usually a thunderstorm moves very little. Prior to the thunder, the wind will blow from all direction toward its center but later wind-shears will make it feel like blowing from the center.
Thunderstorms are often associated with cold fronts as the cooler air will create the ideal situation for the rising of warmer air near the surface.Lows and highs are usually - but not always - moving eastward due to the jet-streams influence. But local geography has a lot to say; mountains helps to updraft, coastline feeds humid sea air, etc.

Answer 2

Many air masses rotate (travel in all directions!) as they move great distances. Local thunderstorm cells can be produced when air masses of different temperatures collide sending moist air aloft. When a line of thunderstorms travel (through NY?) they often come from the west along with the prevailing winds, bringing warmer air from the southwest. Of course a severe thunderstorm can produce severe rotation (a tornado!).

Answer 3

It relies upon on the place you're with admire to the hurricane. The hurricane direction is oftentimes based on the fee of mid-point winds, no longer floor winds. interior the forward flank middle (the place the rain and hail pop out), oftentimes on the northeast part of the hurricane, air is pulled down out of the hurricane with the rain and hail and while it hits the floor, it spreads out in all guidelines. It creates a gust front that's the hallmark of a thunderstorm. In a squall line, the full equipment is shifting forward, and the gust front is, too. A supercell is a single, remoted hurricane, and the outflow from it is going out from the hurricane in all guidelines. additionally...while you're close to the updraft (rain-loose base), wind would be going INTO the hurricane. that's called influx. In a rotating hurricane, the forward flank middle is pulled around the north part of the updraft, then around the west part to variety the function "hook echo", or rear-flank downdraft. This region of very extreme winds rotates around and cuts into the updraft base, inflicting a "clean slot" which would be clean or finished of hail. This RFD and its interactions with the influx and gust front brought about via the forward flank middle all come jointly to reason tornadoes. There are very complicated wind fields linked with supercell thunderstorms.

Answer 4

It's not hard to understand. Storms follow prevailing winds. If out to sea with no land mass close, thunderstorms occur, right?

Answer 5

Thunderstorms form over the ocean, not just land.

Answer 6

Hurricanes come in from the east, as well as winds from high pressure systems.

Answer 7

Hurricanes do come from the East, so maybe that had something to do with it? I'm just guessing.