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? -- rec --
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