Consider a line of thunderstorms 30 miles wide and suppose (for simplicity) that the rainfall rate everywhere within this band of thunderstorms is 1

Earth Science Sep 17, 2020

Consider a line of thunderstorms 30 miles wide and suppose (for simplicity) that the rainfall rate everywhere within this band of thunderstorms is 1.5 inches per hour. Assume that the line of thunderstorms is oriented in a north-south direction and that it moves due east. How much rain will fall at a location over which the storms pass if the storms move at 30 mph? By what factor would the total rainfall at a location increase if the storms only moved eastward at 10 mph?