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07-11-2008, 06:31 PM
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Just got back from a business trip to Minneapolis. Darn near had a tornado touch down in the parking lot of the hotel yesterday. So many lightning strikes that electrical tranformers were going up like popcorn. Last time I experienced weather like that was the eye-wall of hurricane Hugo in Charleston SC. Guess I can live without the thunderstorms after all!
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07-12-2008, 01:19 PM
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James,
You are spot on about the Interior and the strikes. I can not remember the specific percentage (semi annual weather brief from our meteorologists), but the White (north of Fairbanks) and Ray (between Fairbanks and Bettles) Mountains receive something in the range of 75 to 90 percent of all Alaskan lightning strikes. We have CB develop just about every afternoon up here in Fairbanks (generally see it develop north of Eielson AFB over toward the Granite Tors and then continue NWW of Fairbanks). Probably (SWAG on my part) makes thunderstorms 25 percent of the time? Luckily (for fires), we have been getting a pretty good rainfall this summer.
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