Charlotte Weather Information at TerriBennett.com

Severe thunderstorms have certainly been a part of many weekends this spring. It's not that the number of days with thunder has been unusually high but the number of days with severe storms has been unusually high.

So what's to blame?

Spring is typically a season of volatile weather. One day can be very warm and the next quite cool. This has certainly been the case this year. The boundary where cold and warm air meet is called the jet stream. The jet stream can be thought of as a global conveyor belt of stormy weather. This spring the jet stream has been very active, frequently diving southward over the mid-Atlantic states. The active jet stream pattern has resulted in more frequent strong storms but it's simply a coincidence that many of them have occurred on the weekend.

So you're not alone in thinking that the weekends seem particularly stormy lately. The good news is that this will not last. As spring grows into summer the jet stream will shift northward taking the storm track with it. So the trend of stormy weekends will end soon enough but lets hope that the rain finds a way to keep falling during the work week!

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