{"id":262301,"date":"2026-06-10T19:56:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/262301\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T19:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:56:29","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-different-types-of-thunderstorms-explained-and-why-some-strike-without-warning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/262301\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Different Types Of Thunderstorms Explained And Why Some Strike Without Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Thunderstorms can be triggered by a variety of factors: first, fronts; then an outflow boundary, which is a push of wind out ahead of a main line of storms; and lastly, popcorn or pulse thunderstorms that appear almost out of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-rich-text-asset-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CX_Headlines_3.png\" alt=\"CX_Headlines_3.png\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Front-driven storms form along a dividing line between humid warm air out ahead of a line of storms and cooler, drier air behind it. That contrast is exactly why thunderstorms develop.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-rich-text-asset-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/X_Front_Storm.png\" alt=\"X_Front_Storm.png\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The second type is a gust front\u2014an area of wind out ahead of the main line of storms that can trigger additional thunderstorms. Sometimes these storms also become severe.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-rich-text-asset-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/X_Outflow_Storm.png\" alt=\"X_Outflow_Storm.png\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The third type is the most difficult for a meteorologist to forecast. &#8220;Popcorn&#8221; storms, like popcorn popping in a microwave, are hard to predict which one will pop first. They are often very tiny, sometimes five miles in diameter, where one neighborhood is sunny and another gets a downpour.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-rich-text-asset-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/X_PopUp_Storm.png\" alt=\"X_PopUp_Storm.png\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thunderstorms can be triggered by a variety of factors: first, fronts; then an outflow boundary, which is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-262301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}