Cecil Moore wrote:


Precipitation static doesn't always occur during thunderstorms.
It's effects are greatly reduced in high humidity environments.
For precipitation static to occur requires charged particles.
And you don't know if charged particles even existed during
your experiment. To separate charged particle effects from
lightning effects you need to run your experiment without
the clouds and thunderstorms under conditions that guarantee
charged particles. That would be during a dust storm on a clear
sky day under low humidity conditions as often exist in Queen
Creek, AZ.

Cecil,

This is close to being an all-time RRAA classic.

Precipitation, at least in the form of rain, often occurs when the
humidity is quite high.

Do you suppose they should have named it dust storm static rather than
precipitation static? Or perhaps dry rain static?

8-)

73,
Gene
W4SZ