Tropical storm shocks scientists – Shatters record for lowest temperature on Earth
March 30, 2021 by Robert
Lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth… but media warns that “climate change deniers can stick their head in the sand as much as they want.â€
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As scientists explain in a new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, on Dec 29th, 2018, a NOAA-20 weather satellite recorded an unprecedented -111.2°C (about -168°F) atop thunderstorm clouds just south of the equator in the southwestern Pacific. This set a new cold record for storm-cloud temperatures.
The tops of the thunderstorm clouds reached an altitude of over 20.5 km (12.8 miles) above sea level.
Large storms are often the result of warm surface air pushing high into the atmosphere, rapidly cooling, condensing, and forming thick clouds. In other words, the hot air on the surface and cooler air in the atmosphere switched positions. This process, known as convection, produces wind and rain and all the things we associate with thunderstorms, including cooler air on the surface, which, you probably already know, is common as a storm front moves through an area.
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