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overshooting top

Understanding overshooting top in thunderstorms

February 11, 2025 by Marko Korosec
overshooting top

Overshooting tops develop on thunderstorms that have powerful updrafts. Overshooting tops typically develop on Cumulonimbus capillatus incus clouds. The updraft punches through the equilibrium level … Read more

Categories Severe Weather Theory Tags convection, overshooting top, severe thunderstorm

Earth’s record low temperature of -111 °C recorded atop of the thunderstorm clouds in the tropical Pacific on Dec 29th, 2018

March 29, 2021 by Marko Korosec

On the 29th of December 2018, the VIIRS sensor aboard the NOAA-20 satellite measured the Earth’s record low temperature ever. The lowest temperature reached an … Read more

Categories Tropical Weather Tags overshooting top, pacific, record low temperature, record temperature, thunderstorm, tropical convection, tropical weather
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