Comments on: Global Warming Means More Lightning https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/11/14/global-warming-means-more-lightning/ Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:52:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Erayor https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/11/14/global-warming-means-more-lightning/#comment-484417 Tue, 25 Nov 2014 00:52:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20633#comment-484417 “…explains 77% of the variance…”

Variance is real and part of the purest science (for you science deniers : it’s called mathematics).
To be clear: if you have observational data, you don’t need to apply them to any models (data is real, it’s really not that difficult, just basic graduate science like science deniers say).

]]> By: Hank Roberts https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/11/14/global-warming-means-more-lightning/#comment-484416 Sat, 15 Nov 2014 17:45:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20633#comment-484416 How does lightning rate correlate with hailstone formation, any idea? I’d guess that higher convection energy means
— more potential nuclei for hailstone formation are carried up high, maybe more hailstones forming, and
— more lift available, so possibly more up and down cycles before hailstones get heavy enough to fall out.

As I recall, convective cycling is what builds up the size of hailstones.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-11/msu-rms111414.php

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