It's really amazing how violent microbursts can be and how quickly they can go from rainstorm to raging hurricane! It's a good thing they only last a few moments.
@@AZDC99 eh, I don’t agree with that. The storms in Florida are pretty tame compared to microbursts in AZ. Besides hurricanes of course. Plus Phoenix feels earthquakes from basically every surrounding state.
had one here in Warwick UK a couple of Tuesday's ago.Geez it was mental destroyed stuff in the gardens mad lightning and 3 inches of water in 5 minutes.Loads of people thought it was a twister,but the intense rain was totally horizontal!
Microbursts can be deadly like a tornado or hurricane. My neighborhood and a few other nearby neighborhoods were experiencing 100 mph wind gusts, and just 2 miles away there wasn’t any damage at all. Microbursts are 2.5 miles or less in diameter.
starts vid...."hey this isnt a microburst, can still see 20 feet down the way so just some intense straight line winds......" Proceeds to continue until about 3 minutes in then says "Ohhhh, yep that would be one hella crazy microburst."
I got to watch one from my dad's house in Desert Hot Springs. NE corner of town, up the hill about 1,000 feet above the valley floor, looking across to Palm Springs. When the rain bomb hit the ground everything south of DHS proper disappeared. Just this gray sheet of water and plenty of lightning. Perfectly calm where we were, and just a mile south on Palm Drive it was like this video. And yes, it was in August of 2005. 116° out, temp dropped about 30° when that microburst hit.
What microburst? All I saw was strong winds pushing heavy rain, and drops of water on their lens. A microburst is tons of water slamming straight down unto the earth from the clouds...
In 1978 I was caught in a microburst in Custer’s State Park. We were at one of the highest areas of the park and had just got in our big Ford Torino when the storm hit. The car was pummeled by hailstones and we thought the car was going to flip over. And then it was gone. As quickly as it started. When we drove back through town, we saw that a semi truck trailer had been pushed into the window of a restaurant.
Fantastic video! I grew up across the street from those apartments.. was driving around Dobson Rd and I was wondering why I saw so many branches everywhere
The term ‘microburst’ is puzzling. There is nothing ‘micro’ about this phenomenon. Why do they last so long if they are just a temporary downdraft of cold air? They seem to be driven by a long-lasting mechanism with sustained effects.
The term "microburst" is used because its effects are so localized. Most of these microbursts are barely a mile wide; it's just the outflow from them that makes it so intense on the ground. Pour water from a bottle onto the ground and you see how fast and how far the water spreads outward when it hits the ground, all from a column of water barely a quarter inch in diameter. Same concept.
A microburst is totally different, trust me. Just experienced my third this year on the south coast. The sound of the wind is like being in a hurricane which I’ve been in previously. It just drops on you. Like being at full spin inside a washing machine, going in all directions. Terrifying noise, we got 2 inches of rain in 5 minutes, plus hail. And I used to live in Glasgow, and in their wettest winter on record lol, so trust me, I can tell the difference. Sadly got outside so had no chance to video.
Thanks for braving the winds. Not fun to be stuck in. But it's over before it begins. Leave the hurricanes and earthquakes to the Floridans and Californians, ha ha
