The National Center for Earth Observation reported that a cloud cooled minus 111 degrees, an unprecedented cold temperature measured above a severe storm cloud in the Pacific.
The National Center for Earth Observation (NCEO) is a distributed NERC hub of over 100 scientists from UK universities and research organizations trying to explain why cloud cooled minus 111 Degrees Celsius Record cold! in the history.
According to Dr Simon Proud, a researcher at the Department of Physics and the National Center for Earth Observation, it describes an unprecedented cold temperature measured above a severe storm cloud in the Pacific by an Earth-orbiting satellite.
This record temperature of -111 degrees C is more than 30 degrees Celsius cooler than typical thunderclouds and is the coldest known measure of storm cloud temperature.
According to the report published by the National Center for Earth Observation in the lowest section of the Earth’s atmosphere, known as the troposphere, the air temperature decreases with altitude and can reach as low as -90 degrees Celsius in the tropics. .
Thunderstorms and tropical cyclones can grow to high altitudes, up to 18 km (11 mi), and therefore the tops of these storm clouds become extremely cold. Temperature-measuring sensors aboard Earth-orbiting satellites can detect these cold clouds: allowing meteorologists to monitor such storms and issue severe weather warnings.
They define the storm as one of the most powerful that crossed the troposphere and entered the stratosphere; continue to cool as it gained altitude even though the surrounding air was warmer: an event known as a summit overshoot. This excess led to the storm cloud becoming the coldest known storm cloud temperature on record, -111 degrees Celsius, and the tops of the clouds reaching an altitude of more than 20.5 km (12.8 miles). ) above sea level.
Experts explain that, "This storm reached an unprecedented temperature that pushes the limits of what current satellite sensors are capable of measuring," explains Dr. Proud. “We found that these really cold temperatures seem to be becoming more common, with just as many extremely cold temperatures in the last 3 years as in the previous 13 years.
This is important, as storms with cooler clouds tend to be more extreme and more dangerous to people on the ground due to hail, lightning, and wind. We now need to understand if this increase is due to our changing climate or if it is due to a “perfect storm” of weather conditions that produced extreme thunderstorm outbursts in recent years.”
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