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THUNDERSTORM 0047
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Date: 02-04-2004 This was a very pretty storm, in that it was a developing singlecell (or compact multicell) developing slowly in an unstable cool and dry airmass. The setup for the afternoon was slow-developing isolated wintry showers and that’s what we got. This cell gave only four discharges in it’s time over Macclesfield but two of them were rather pretty as the blue sky and wispy wintry precipitation curtains were also present in the shot due to the high cloud base (dry airmass).
It continued developing as it went northwards into a more energetic storm. There was a brief soft hail shower as the storm went over, and virga was definitely occurring shown in the photos.
Although the development was slow, the anvils of surrounding cumulonimbus cells were pretty spectacular, and with some of them you could see right through the base-line due to virga.
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