Thunderstorm Season 2008

This summer is certainly the most severe and I'm not talking about heat. When cold air gets locked up in the atmosphere and the warm air on the bottom, put in more ingredents such as instability,lift, heat and high humidity and the jet stream as well. You get the ingredents of creating thunderstorms. Thunderstorms thrive on moisture and that's why they form in the summer and spring. Without moisture, thunderstorms cannot form. Lighening forms within the cloud. The positive electrons are on top of the cloud and the negative on the bottom. Something needs to give. That's when you see that flash in the sky. Thunder is the sound of lightening crashing.

Thunderstorms are the most beautiful and dangerous forms of weather. Every year people were being killed by lightening strikes. This year we had a big record of thunderstorms developing between the months of June through August. The next blog I'll be posting will be about hurricanes and the past season of 2007 and 2008 hurricane season.