Year after year, humid, storm-prone areas of the southeastern United States rack up top scores for the number of lightning strikes that flash across their landscapes.
The state will get another taste of Florida-style weather over the next few days as another humid, wet storm system moves through.
It can even clean the thick dust that sticks after a rain shower or sand storm in humid conditions.
The outspreading downdraft air forms a pool some 500 to 2,000 metres (about 1,600 to 6,500 feet) deep, and often there is a distinct boundary between the cool air and the warm, humid air in which the storm developed.
It has been hot and intensely humid here with a lot of storm activity - which will be ideal preparation for South America and that journey into the Amazon jungle to face Italy in their World Cup opener on 14 June.
Apparently extra double-stick tape and spray glue are essential for dealing with conferences that take place in extra-dry (Minneapolis) and humid climates (Miami during a tropical storm).
Forecaster Jim Bacon, from Norwich-based Weatherquest, added: "Last night's storms were a classic example of what can happen when storms develop in such warm, humid, air.
When the parent storm forms in a wet, humid environment, the microburst will be accompanied by intense rainfall at the ground.
The Storm Prediction Center cautioned that warm, humid air could cause severe weather in the lower plains, Arkansas and Oklahoma on Sunday.
A fast-moving storm system, fueled by a warm, humid air mass and pressure from a system hovering over Canada, caused a wide swath of violent activity from Maine to Maryland, the National Weather Service said.
The storms will be unleashed as that humid air clashes with an incoming cold air front, which will also push down the temperatures to the mid 20s on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
