Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Here is an absolutely fascinating article about "Heat Bursts".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_burst
Below are two of the most extreme cases ever recorded, the Portuguese one is in my old Guinness Record Book, which is what made me check it out further and find the above info;
6th July 1949 in Portugal the air temperature apparently rose from 38c to 70c (158f) in just 2 minutes.
June 1967 in Iran and a heat burst apparently sent the air temperature rocketing to a quite absurd 87c (189f).”
“Here is an absolutely fascinating article about "Heat Bursts".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_burst
Below are two of the most extreme cases ever recorded, the Portuguese one is in my old Guinness Record Book, which is what made me check it out further and find the above info;
6th July 1949 in Portugal the air temperature apparently rose from 38c to 70c (158f) in just 2 minutes.
June 1967 in Iran and a heat burst apparently sent the air temperature rocketing to a quite absurd 87c (189f).”
Localised effects over a very small area due to a large fire, possibly. But otherwise, I'd say completely impossible.
Some of the documented cases on the wiki list are plausible, but not those two




