Interannual course of thunderstorms occurrence at stations encompassing Mariel Development Zone

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Interannual course, thunderstorms, present weather, past weather, trend

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Nayirah Elissalt Ramos
Instituto de Meteorología
Lourdes Álvarez-Escudero
Instituto de Meteorología

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The Mariel Special Development Zone is an area of ​​interest for advancement economic of Cuba; However, like the entire Cuban archipelago, this area it is exposed to electrical storms that act against the port maneuvers and the infrastructure of the place. The objective of this research is to characterize the behavior of the inter-annual march of the occurrence of electrical storms in three meteorological stations that triangulate the Mariel Development Zone. In addition, an inter-annual march analysis is carried out for other meteorological variables associated with the behavior of the thunderstorm trend. The fundamental information base for the study is constituted by the current and past weather code records for the three meteorological stations under analysis, in the period 1989 - 2019. The work concludes that the series of weather code records past and present for the stations that triangulate the Mariel Special Development Zone present different quality, being Casablanca and Bahia Honda excellent and the interannual progress of the percentage of occurrence of observations with storms presents different behaviors, thus that of Bahía Honda is homogeneous, Casablanca it is highly significant increasing and Bauta is highly significant decreasing. The interannual behavior of the occurrence of haze, of temperatures greater or equal than 30 ° C and the average temperatures, do not have a defined relationship and therefore do not explain the behavior of the interannual march of the percent of occurrence of observations with storm for these stations.

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Elissalt RamosN., & Álvarez-EscuderoL. (2022). Interannual course of thunderstorms occurrence at stations encompassing Mariel Development Zone. Revista Cubana De Meteorología, 28(4). Retrieved from http://rcm.insmet.cu/index.php/rcm/article/view/649
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