I wonder if all that smoke/soot last summer might’ve served as CCN to some degree? The thunderstorms last summer were very intense..we met/exceeded severe criteria in terms of wind and/or hail more than a dozen times, which hasn’t happened since 2014. Even had hail in September, for the first time in my life.
Though it could’ve just been the troughy niño pattern (2014 was also the last summer with that degree of troughing). Still an interesting thought experiment, though.
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