when do thunderstorms typically occur morning or another time?
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Its thundering now in the NE of England!
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WHAT IS A HEAT BURST?  \n\n\nMETEOROLOGIST JEFF HABY\n\nA heat burst is a downdraft of hot and dry air that typically occurs in the evening or overnight hours. A heatburst is much more rare than a severe thunderstorm. Thus, the atmospheric conditions have to be just right for a heat burst to occur. Heat bursts usually happen in the evening or at night after thunderstorms are ending. Thus, a thunderstorm has a vital role. Two other characteristics are that the air must start its descent from fairly high up and the environmental air aloft needs to be very dry. Precipitation falling into very dry air aloft will cause the air to cool through latent heat absorption. If the air is very high aloft and the air is much more dense than the surrounding air then it will accelerate toward the surface. In the case of a heat burst, all the precipitation that cooled the air aloft has been vaporized. Therefore, the precipitation can no longer absorb latent heat. As this dense air accelerates toward the surface it rapidly warms at a dry adiabatic lapse rate compression. What must make a heat burst so rare is that this downdraft must reach extremely high velocities. Velocities must be high enough so that the momentum of the sinking air offsets the fact that it is becoming warmer in temperature and thus less dense than the environmental air it is falling into.\n\nNot only is the air in a heat burst anomalously hot but it is also extremely dry. The extremely high temperatures combined with extremely dry air plus the wind can remove all the moisture out of vegetation. Just like any atmospheric phenomena, heat bursts have differing intensities. The worst heat bursts persist for a significant amount of time and have temperatures that go over 120 F, even in the middle of the night. This extremely hot and dry air can remain in place for several hours before temperatures return to normal. \n\nA microburst occurs through the same process except that the origin of the microburst is not as high aloft as a heatburst. Thus, the microburst is not able to get as much adiabatic compression as a heatburst. Often a microburst will not lose all of it's precipitation before hitting the ground. If precipitation is within sinking air, evaporational cooling will partially offset the adiabatic compressional warming.
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For most places most days, it is usually early-mid afternoon - about 2-3 PM standard time. Afterward, the ground cools more than the heat it receives from the sun (which may be thru clouds). Yet this varies quite a bit according to time of year, location, and the type of weather which occurs. A few examples:\n\nLocations near the coast of oceans or very large lakes often get an sea/lake breeze which develops after daytime heating has reached a certain point - especially during summer. When this occurs early, the daily maximum temperature may occur before noon.\n\nA mountain slope facing E-SE heats very quickly during a sunny morning because the sunshine is more direct on it - especially near the top where the nocturnally-cooled surface layer is shallow. Such places may reach a maximum temperature around noon or slightly afterward then become cooler when the sun is not shining so directly. Similarly a slope facing SW-W may be warmest late afternoon. This refers to locations in the Northern Hemishphere.\n\nDepressions or low areas where cool air can collect and fog is common overnight often don't reach their maximum temperatures until mid-late afternoon.\n\nA cold front passes a location around daybreak and then skies clear. Sunshine causes temperature to increase during morning, but the cold flow behind the front eventually prevails and afternoon becomes colder.
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Isolated is fewer than Scattered\n\n\nNational Weather Service forecasters will forecast "isolated" thunderstorms when we are pretty certain that storms are going to form, but we only expect them to affect about 10% of the area. In other words, 90% of the area won't get wet.\n\n"Widely scattered thunderstorms" means 20% of the area will be affected.\n"Scattered thunderstorms" means 30-50% of the area will be affected.
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Thunderstorms require 2 things:\n* Moisture \n* Rapidly rising warm air\n\nWhile Southern California does have a source of moisture (the Pacific Ocean), it does not have the rapidly rising warm air (or unstable air) necessary for a thunderstorm.  The air over SoCal is generally stable.  It lifts when it gets to the mountains, which is one place where thunderstorms do occur.
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Lightning creates thunder, by rapidly heating the surrounding air. The heated air expands explosively and compresses the air immediately around the heated area.
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The most number of thunderstorms occur in the tropics, or the zone either side of the equator from about 23.5 degrees north latitude to 23.5 degrees south latitude. \nAs far as the most powerful storms are concerned, the ones with the greatest rainfall tend to be in the tropics, because of so much moisture available. However, thunderstorms that cause severe weather, including damaging winds, hail, and even tornadoes, are generally in the middle latitudes. The middle portions of North America, i.e., the Plains states of the U.S., have the greatest number of tornadoes than any other place in the world.
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While I agree with your opinion, I like thunder storms, blizzards and wind storms - I live in a rural area and when these occur, I race around with my cats to watch from each window of the house - soon after we are exhausted and fall asleep for an afternoon nap.  But when I get up, I have to shovel or clean-up the debris.  It was worth it though, because the memories have been precious.\n\n....then there's the 4 O'Clock sun on a summer day when your shadow is long as you are walking home and you start to day dream - thats cool!
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Probly Early morning or late after noon. That way there is sunlight (plants need it you know) and its not extreamly hot or cold.
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Alerts aren't issued all that often. There are freeze alerts, dangerous weather alerts, fog alerts, etc. You have to have one of those situations in your area before you will get to see your radio respond to an alert. If it is giving watches and statements for the right area, it will give alerts too when they are issued. I have a weather radio and it issues alerts only a few times a year for severe thunderstorms, and other things that happen in my part of the country.
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Thunder / lightning is caused when a cold front and a warm front come together.  More info on lightning can be found here:\nhttp://www.insuremyhouse.com/lightning.html
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sooner then we think.\n\nanytime. it could happen next month, next week, tomorrow, the next hour, or even maybe... now.\n\nbut it didnt.\n\nwhen the moon turns red, lightning and thunder be seen/heard across the world from east to the west.\nnot even the angels of Jesus Christ knows when.\n\nonly God...\n\nso we must be prepared. for He may come from teh clouds anymoment at all.\nand yea.
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From the National Weather Service:\n\nWhen we talk about rainfall, we usually refer to it as being either showers or rain. If we are forecasting showers, we expect the rain to fall on an intermittent basis and from cumulus-type clouds. The showers may vary greatly in intensity over just a few minutes or a few miles. For example, lets say that the forecast for today is calling for a chance of showers. That means that if the rain does develop, it will be on and off, rather scattered, may vary in intensity over just a couple of minutes, and fall from cumulus-type clouds.\n\nIf the forecast for today called for rain, it means we expect the rain to fall rather steadily and from a flat, stratus-type of cloud, and won't change much in intensity from hour to hour. It also means that the rain will fall over a fairly large area, not like showers, which usually fall over smaller areas.
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I believe the answer is 4.  Check out this link.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderstorm
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The early afternoon and evening are the warmest times of the day, and that warmth fuels the convection that powers storms.  Conversely, late at night and early morning are the coolest--and hence the most stable--times of the day.
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Tornados don't have a season, unlike hurricanes, they occur year round in different parts of the country. Generally, most tornadoes occur in the Spring time and into Summer, in an area called "tornado alley", where warm air from the Gulf of Mexico clashes with cold air from Canada, and the Jetstream is usually over those 2 as well and creates a spin to the atmosphere, to initialize the tornadic activity.
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Yes,as answer 1 says,a tornado can occur anywhere.They develope in the clouds and have nothing to do with geographical pull,ect..