{"id":127498,"date":"2021-09-10T09:23:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/scientists-solve-mystery-of-icy-plumes-that-may-foretell-deadly-supercell-storms"},"modified":"2021-09-10T09:23:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:23:44","slug":"scientists-solve-mystery-of-icy-plumes-that-may-foretell-deadly-supercell-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/scientists-solve-mystery-of-icy-plumes-that-may-foretell-deadly-supercell-storms","title":{"rendered":"Scientists solve mystery of icy plumes that may foretell deadly supercell storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-solve-mystery-of-icy-plumes-that-may-foretell-deadly-supercell-storms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a cloudy plume of ice and water vapor billows up above the top of a severe thunderstorm, there\u2019s a good chance a violent tornado, high winds or hailstones bigger than golf balls will soon pelt the Earth below.<\/p>\n<p>A new Stanford University-led study, published Sept. 10 in <i>Science<\/i>, reveals the physical mechanism for these plumes, which form above most of the world\u2019s most damaging tornadoes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/view\/journals\/wefo\/33\/5\/waf-d-18-0040_1.xml\">Previous research<\/a> has shown they\u2019re easy to spot in satellite imagery, often 30 minutes or more before severe weather reaches the ground. \u201cThe question is, why is this plume associated with the worst conditions, and how does it exist in the first place? That\u2019s the gap that we are starting to fill,\u201d said atmospheric scientist Morgan O\u2019Neill, lead author of the new study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a cloudy plume of ice and water vapor billows up above the top of a severe thunderstorm, there\u2019s a good chance a violent tornado, high winds or hailstones bigger than golf balls will soon pelt the Earth below. A new Stanford University-led study, published Sept. 10 in Science, reveals the physical mechanism for these [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}