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Here's a new one for you.....
anyone ever heard of a "heat burst"? We had one here the other night that wreaked havoc for about 20 minutes, just in a small part of our county. Apparently they occur when the heat that radiates up from the hot earth into the atmosphere does NOT cause a thunderstorm -- all that heat has to go somewhere, so it "bursts" out in the form of damaging winds.
Sunday night, we watched the news (and weather, which was unremarkable) and then went to bed. About twenty minutes later, we heard the wind start HOWLING outside. We looked out the window to see trees bent almost double. Our electricity flickered and then went out. My husband got dressed and went outside to close the umbrella on our patio table, and when he came back in, he said it was like there was a huge hair dryer on outside. It was over shortly after that, and our electricity came back on. There are trees (BIG ones) down all over our part of town, and in one area, 12 electrical poles in a row were snapped like matchsticks. I saw a Little Tykes playhouse in the middle of a field. The sign on our Hobby Lobby was completely shattered by the wind. I heard later that the winds were clocked between 80 and 90 miles an hour for that 25 minute time period, and the temperature went from 72 to 90. There is apparently no good way to predict this kind of weather, so everyone was really unprepared.
I have lived in tornado prone areas all my life, but this was a new one for me -- I thought I would pass it along.
Sally
anyone ever heard of a "heat burst"? We had one here the other night that wreaked havoc for about 20 minutes, just in a small part of our county. Apparently they occur when the heat that radiates up from the hot earth into the atmosphere does NOT cause a thunderstorm -- all that heat has to go somewhere, so it "bursts" out in the form of damaging winds.
Sunday night, we watched the news (and weather, which was unremarkable) and then went to bed. About twenty minutes later, we heard the wind start HOWLING outside. We looked out the window to see trees bent almost double. Our electricity flickered and then went out. My husband got dressed and went outside to close the umbrella on our patio table, and when he came back in, he said it was like there was a huge hair dryer on outside. It was over shortly after that, and our electricity came back on. There are trees (BIG ones) down all over our part of town, and in one area, 12 electrical poles in a row were snapped like matchsticks. I saw a Little Tykes playhouse in the middle of a field. The sign on our Hobby Lobby was completely shattered by the wind. I heard later that the winds were clocked between 80 and 90 miles an hour for that 25 minute time period, and the temperature went from 72 to 90. There is apparently no good way to predict this kind of weather, so everyone was really unprepared.
I have lived in tornado prone areas all my life, but this was a new one for me -- I thought I would pass it along.
Sally
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