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From: wats@scicom.alphacdc.com (Bruce Watson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Thunder and lightning
Message-ID: <1516@scicom.alphacdc.com>
Date: 17 Feb 88 00:10:28 GMT
Organization: InterComeX/Star Net, Denver
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In response to the concern of the shuttle stack on its 3-hour rollout
from the VAB:  Most activity that is lightning risky is done in the
early morning.  In the summer cumulonimbus builds up in the early
afternoon and produces thunderstorms by mid-to-late afternoon; hence
the early rising and astronaut breakfast, etc.  Otherwise
thunderstorms occur with the advance of cold fronts, whose
progress is more or less predictable.