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Answer for the clue "Electronic detector of storms ", 7 letters:
sferics

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n. 1 electromagnetic pulses caused by atmospheric phenomena, such as lightning. (plural of sferic English) 2 radio interference caused by sferics; atmospherics.

Usage examples of sferics.

As it turned out, the whistler was only the first of a family of sferics whose taxonomy was to include clicks, hooks, risers, nose-whistlers and one like a warbling of birds called the dawn chorus.

He plodded up to his turret room with its ludicrous circular bed and found that a typhoon of sferics had been bombarding the earth.

Mondaugen was here as part of a program having to do with atmospheric radio disturbances: sferics for short.