70C At Lisbon

“a temperature rise from 100° to 158° in two minutes near Lisbon, Portugal, on July 6, 1949”

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5 Responses to 70C At Lisbon

  1. D. Boss says:

    OMG, here is an example of air temperature rising to 1800 deg F in a fraction of a second:

    https://www.nhra.com/nhra/videos/all/125796

    If you placed a thermometer at the height of the exhaust flames from a top fuel dragster….

    Yes, I’m being sarcastic. But the point is there are many reasons for a large air temperature increase that have nothing to do with weather. Heat from a fire is just one.

  2. Francis Barnett says:

    I remember a report about 100 or so years in a newspaper cutting about some sort of weather phenomenon in California that involved short term very high heat so bad “that birds died on the wing and fell to the ground”
    I’m sure it was on this site somewhere.

  3. Bob G says:

    I’ve never heard of heat bursts. just one more thing to worry about. lol. we’ve got the covid, the West Nile virus, tornadoes, floods, plastic particles in our bloodstreams. It’s a cruel world out there. lol

    • Bob G says:

      I should add that I am familiar with this phenomenon when it is caused by a mountain range…but I didn’t know what it was called and I didn’t know that it could get that extremely hot. it is well known that the air coming off a mountain range rushing down to a lower elevation causes warming of 10 or 20 sometimes 30° . happens quite often in Rapid City South Dakota in the winter. To a lesser extreme it happens in Billings Montana. I have relatives there and they call Billings the banana belt of Montana due to that phenomenal caused when the wind is from the West as they are due east of a mountain range 2 miles higher than than Billings elevation. let me add to my earlier post on all the things that can wipe us out. Yellowstone blowing, how about an earthquake. they don’t just happen in San Francisco…. I think it’s called the New Madrid fault in Missouri. and then I read somewhere that there have been huge tsunamis that have hit California that might be 500 to 1,000 ft high. they probably only happen once every million years …. which means we could be due. how about a big asteroid hitting us. I don’t think I’m going to sleep tonight. lol. so much that can go wrong ….an increase in CO2 isn’t even in the top 100 concerns ….in my opinion

    • oeman50 says:

      I’ve heard of “heat bursts” coming from the Ivanpah solar facility. It made birds burst into flames so often that the staff named them “streamers.”

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