Summertime contains the perfect ingredients for severe weather, particularly in the evenings.
MyValleyWeather.com Meteorologist Paul Wetzl said summer is the time of year you tend to have pop-up showers and thunderstorms.
Like any time of the year, weather is associated with cold pockets moving through the troposphere, he said.
"Anytime you can get a convection to be created, the possibility of precipitation may occur," Wetzl said.
If there is strong heating on the surface, which is typical during the summer months, and that lines up with a cold pocket, there will be stronger convection, Wetzl said. If those elements are combined with either speed shear or directional shear, strong storms are more likely to occur.
