If Weatheradio service is available in your area,keep it tuned for watches and radar updates. A day to watch To make a good storm you need the right ingredients, plus atmospheric instability. If the atmosphere is lacking in one of the ingredients, severe weather is unlikely. Many of you are no doubt aware of the crackling sounds on a.m. radio during thunderstorms. This noisy interference can become beautiful music if you train yourself to interpret the crackling and relate it to the lightning you see.
Every crunch corresponds to a flash that just occurred somewhere in the area.
You can fine-tune your interpretation by matching crackles to flashes in the distance,and you will discover that long, uniform ones are more common in large, old storms with little new activity. By comparison, short, fast crackles represent quick bolts or sparks inside the cloud, both of which are associated with new, growing cells. When visibility is poor or clouds are unclear, static can be the best indicator of faraway storm activity. Even weak boundaries can be recognized by a small change in temperature and wind direction across them, and by the location of lines of larger clouds. The most likely severe weather days will have two essential factors in place.