Climatology of thunderstorms determined according to past weather code
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Thunderstorms are one of the most common meteorological processes in the tropical area, particularly in Cuba, where they are favored by the physical configuration and geographic location of this territory. Due to the availability and completeness of the information in the meteorological stations belonging to the provinces of Havana, Artemisa and Mayabeque, in the period 2000 - 2016, the objective of this study is to determine the interannual, annual and daily course of the variables "occurrence of observations reporting thunderstorms" and "number of days with thunderstorm", using past weather code, in the region and period mentioned. The series of frequency of occurrence and days with thunderstorm associated with the past weather code were counted according to month of the year and time of day for each station. Climatology using the observations of the past weather code showed a behavior similar to that given by the present weather code, with the highest values on july with 26% of the total observations of the month, and 19 hours with 31% of the correponding hour. Inter-annual course of the frequency of ocurrence of observations reponrting thunderstorms showed three homogeneous series, a highly significant incresing serie, a significant decreasing serie, a highly sgnificant decreasing serie, and four series in which no conclusions could be drawn.
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