"Convective storms" refer to powerful and intense weather events that are formed by the upward movement of warm and moist air, which creates thunderstorms, heavy rain, lightning, and sometimes strong winds or hail. Full definition
Number of occurrences of different freezing level updraft speeds in convective storms simulated by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies global climate model for current (solid) and doubled CO2 (dashed) conditions (5). (earthzine.org)
«We believe we see indications that weather patterns — so the frequency and intensity of convective storms — in some parts of the United States has already changed,» he said yesterday. (scientificamerican.com)
Despite organised deep convective storms only occurring 5 % of the time in the world's equatorial regions, they deliver almost 50 % of all its rainfall. (sciencedaily.com)