Posted by Steve@Advance on July 01, 2018 at 15:41:38 from (66.169.147.211):
In Reply to: Hot weather story posted by smalltowner on July 01, 2018 at 14:03:08:
I barely remember my parents talking about that when I was a kid, would have been 5 years old.
Rumor was it must have had something to do with Russia and some secret attack!
I don't know if the weather people knew what caused it back then, but now it's known as a rare "heat burst" caused by a nearby thunder storm collapse. In fact, one happened just a couple weeks ago near Breckenridge and Eastland TX. Temperatures went from 85* at midnight but by 1:00 a.m., it was 99*! There was also a 50 MPH wind and the humidity dropped to 10%.
I live just south of Ft Worth, and that morning I noticed there had been a strong wind during the night, though there had been no storm or rain.
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