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What was that stuff that fell on Thursday?

On Thursday, many locations in southern Wisconsin experience snow squalls in which the falling precipitation was momentarily quite intense.

This event was an example of shallow convection – as opposed to the deep convection of summertime thunderstorms. Thursday’s shallow convection was spawned by a conspiracy of circumstances occurring at different levels in the atmosphere. Continue reading

Category: Meteorology, Phenomena

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