Characterization of thunderstorms daily course with present and past weather records
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The objective of the present work is to describe the daily cycle of the frequency of occurrence of thunderstorm observations for Cuban meteorological stations, based on present and past weather codes reports. The information basis for the study is the current and past weather codes registry from 68 weather stations over the National Territory for the period between 2005 and 2016. The differences between the cycles of each station are determined by cluster analysis. Thunderstorms are a phenomenon with maximum probability od occurrence between 16 and 19 hours local time, where most stations show their absolute maximum values. According to daily cycles of frequency of occurrence of storms observations stations form three groups, one shows higher frequencies on the hours of usually lower values, other with its maximum value at 16 hours and a third with maximum at 18 hours.
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