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stormscope
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stormscope [′stȯrm‚skōp]
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An airborne device that uses data from electrical signals generated by atmospheric electrical discharge activity to generate a map of severe weather areas, and that displays, in real time, weather conditions in all directions.


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This spring, a nationwide network of lightning detectors showed that storms over the central United States spawned positive flashes at three times their normal rate, Lyons and his colleagues report in the Oct.
During early 1986, a network of lightning detectors recorded a high number of cloud-to-ground flashes off the coast of the Carolinas, reports Richard E.
 
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