Heat Burst Causes Nighttime Temperature Rise Of Near 20 Degrees In Nebraska

weather ^ | 07/30/2024 | Chris Dolce

[Tell It Right]

In all seriousness, when I read something about history one of the first things I do is look up if the climate was in a warming period or a cooling period at the time. And the cooling periods were the harsh times. That's when there's lower crop yields, less predictable rain patterns, and more deaths by plague. The warming periods tend to be the good times to be alive.

So, when I read the Bible I always remember that time of the Jewish patriarchs (late part of Genesis) is in the cooling period before the Minoan Warming Period, the Era of Judges (Moses to Samuel) corresponds to the Minoan Warm Period, the Era of Kings (King Saul to the rest of OT) is the Greek Dark Age Cooling Period, and the New Testament was in the Roman Warm Period. It gives you a whole new perspective on what it meant to trust God during each part of the Bible (surviving during the horrible cooling periods with their famines and droughts and frequent wars as nations tried to take over each other's crop land, etc.).

The same for when I read about the settlers in America dying from starvation during the Little Ice Age, and Washington's men freezing during the Revolutionary War, and nations in Africa taking over each other's crop land and selling off neighboring people into slavery (during Africa's megadroughts during the Little Ice Age). The same for when I read about Anglos and Saxons being kicked out of their homeland in modern day Germany during the horrible Dark Age cooling period (perhaps driven by the Huns migrating west-southwest for better crop land and driving the Germanic Goths from their homeland).

Not saying that all major atrocities were from cooling period. But saying that usually when it's many countries committing the atrocities then it's good chance it was related to doing anything it takes to survive during cool periods.

[Peter ODonnell]

Not a new concept, but it is rare, as stated. A daytime thunderstorm decaying after sunset can release very warm air that it was trying to lift, if timing is right that warm air does not cool very much and is then expelled at ground level at late afternoon surface temperatures, as the storm falls apart. Storms that are not decaying can release colder air as downdrafts too. It all depends on how high into the atmosphere the storm lifted the air.

[4yearlurker]

There is also “bomb cyclone” and “atmospheric river” too. I hate the media.

[Organic Panic]

They’ve never heard of the Santa Ana winds?

[Organic Panic]

They’ve never heard of the Santa Ana winds?

[Jacquerie]

A Foehn Wind.

[Mean Daddy]

I was in a hospital in Fremont, Nebraska on St. Patrick’s day in the early 80s and the high that day was in the 80’s but by 6:00 pm, there was 6” of snow on the ground. At the time it was th greatest temperature swing we had experienced.

[GenXPolymath]

“Sounds like a warm front. Are they now calling warm fronts heat bursts?”

No local phenomena where a upper layer is warmer than the surface boundary layer. A down burst then penetrates the surface level boundary layer in a dry downburst of hot dry air. This displaces the denser surface layer in the local area expanding outwards from the burst center. Once the drive mechanisms are expended the less dense air rises and the area cools again as the inflow of surrounding denser cold air returns. It’s not all that uncommon in the midcontinent areas. More common down wind of large mtn ranges as the drive is upper level vortex flow off the peaks of the range.

[kawhill]

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