70C At Lisbon

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

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2 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.

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