Africa, a Thunder and Lightning Hot Spot, May See Even More Storms
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/climate/lightning-africa-climate-change.html
Source: By Shola Lawal, The New York Times.
Excerpt: Africa is experiencing bigger and more frequent thunderstorms as global temperatures rise, according to researchers at Tel Aviv University. ...meteorologists wondered at the time whether thunderstorms were becoming more common in Africa in the era of climate change. The answer, according to the new research, published in January in the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Climate [https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0781.1], is yes. An increase in temperatures in Africa over the past seven decades correlates with bigger and more frequent thunderstorms, the researchers found....
Source: By Shola Lawal, The New York Times.
Excerpt: Africa is experiencing bigger and more frequent thunderstorms as global temperatures rise, according to researchers at Tel Aviv University. ...meteorologists wondered at the time whether thunderstorms were becoming more common in Africa in the era of climate change. The answer, according to the new research, published in January in the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Climate [https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0781.1], is yes. An increase in temperatures in Africa over the past seven decades correlates with bigger and more frequent thunderstorms, the researchers found....