#614 Postby wx247 » Mon Aug 16, 2004 3:00 pm
ChaserUK wrote:Earl certainly does look like it bursting back into life - however, is this not just down to daytime heating?
I thought that tropical waves, depressions, etc. were driven by nocturnal changes... not afternoon heating. I thought that the thunderstorms expanded at night as the air above the warm waters (which don't lose heat as rapidly as land) cools off leaving a temperature difference that supports an increase in convection.
Am I off-base?
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