Tatsumaki warning !
The tornado sirens went off as I got home a couple minutes ago. Oooh, TV is showing wall cloud about 10 miles west of me - kind of close to my mother's house. Hail too.
Interesting unusual weather phenomenon VERY early this morning. I quote a reporter to make it easier (for me): "A heat burst shortly after midnight sent the temperature skyrocketing in Wichita early today, weather officials say.
“We went from 85 to 102 in 20 minutes,” said Stephanie Dunten, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wichita.
The surge in temperatures began at 12:22 a.m. when a pocket of air in the upper atmosphere collapsed to the surface, Dunten said. That sent winds of more than 50 miles an hour through portions of the city as the air hit the ground and spread out.
In a heat burst, rain falling from higher elevations cools air beneath it as it evaporates. The cooler air then descends rapidly to the surface, and as the air falls it is compressed and warms dramatically."
I saw lots of tree limbs down today =(
Interesting unusual weather phenomenon VERY early this morning. I quote a reporter to make it easier (for me): "A heat burst shortly after midnight sent the temperature skyrocketing in Wichita early today, weather officials say.
“We went from 85 to 102 in 20 minutes,” said Stephanie Dunten, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wichita.
The surge in temperatures began at 12:22 a.m. when a pocket of air in the upper atmosphere collapsed to the surface, Dunten said. That sent winds of more than 50 miles an hour through portions of the city as the air hit the ground and spread out.
In a heat burst, rain falling from higher elevations cools air beneath it as it evaporates. The cooler air then descends rapidly to the surface, and as the air falls it is compressed and warms dramatically."
I saw lots of tree limbs down today =(