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Anyone ever been through a "heat burst" (weather, not sex)
Posted on 4/21/17 at 9:09 am
Posted on 4/21/17 at 9:09 am
I've been reading an older weather book and it has a chapter on "heat bursts." These occur mostly at night and relate in some way to dying thunderstorms. They believe that as the storm dies, there is no longer rain to cool downdrafts so they superheat. The winds increase greatly and the temperature goes up very quickly.
The last record one was in July 2016 in Hobart, Oklahoma. Temperature went from 80 degrees to 105 degrees in one hour fifteen minutes (and this was at night).
From Wiki, here's the worst one on record:
Anyone ever been through one?
The last record one was in July 2016 in Hobart, Oklahoma. Temperature went from 80 degrees to 105 degrees in one hour fifteen minutes (and this was at night).
From Wiki, here's the worst one on record:
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Shortly after midnight on June 15, 1960, a freak meteorological phenomenon struck Kopperl, Texas when a dying thunderstorm collapsed over Kopperl. The storm had rained itself out, and with little to no precipitation to cool the resulting downdrafts, superheated air was expended upon the community in the form of extremely hot wind gusts of up to 75 MPH. The temperature increased rapidly, peaking near 140° Fahrenheit (60° Celsius); twenty degrees above the official all-time high for the state of Texas. The storm, known as "Satan's Storm" by locals, soon became part of local folklore
Anyone ever been through one?
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 9:34 am to chinhoyang
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The temperature increased rapidly, peaking near 140° Fahrenheit (60° Celsius); twenty degrees above the official all-time high for the state of Texas.
Is that now officially recorded as the current record high?
Posted on 4/21/17 at 9:35 am to chinhoyang
Wow. Pretty neat. I love science.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 9:37 am to chinhoyang
Yes, a few years ago. It was pretty much as described, a hot wind that came out of nowhere, although it was nowhere near as extreme as the one in the article. The wind blew hard enough to knock the power out for a little while.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 9:39 am to chinhoyang
Isn't this just called summer in the south?
Posted on 4/21/17 at 9:40 am to TigerFanatic99
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Is that now officially recorded as the current record high?
I don't think so. The book I read had a short chapter on the Texas incident. People were scared and tormented - many truly thought that the world was coming to an end or that there had been a distant nuclear strike due to the high winds that were so hot.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 9:41 am to chinhoyang
We had one in Wichita about 7 or 8 years ago. The winds picked up to about 70 mph and apparently the temp got up around 105 around midnight. I slept through it and heard about it the next day.
The storm popped up really quickly and died even faster.
The storm popped up really quickly and died even faster.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 9:42 am to floyd of pink
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Isn't this just called summer in the south?
20-50 degree temperature increases at night with hurricane force winds isn't quite a typical summer in the South.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 9:52 am to chinhoyang
Sounds typical for a large part of the year in the middle east.
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