{"id":1252,"date":"2017-07-18T15:18:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T20:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2018-07-05T14:56:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T19:56:36","slug":"taking-the-mystery-out-of-microbursts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1252","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Mystery Out of Microbursts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/505882\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nssl.noaa.gov\/education\/svrwx101\/wind\/types\/img\/amarillo_microburst_jasonboggs_2014_nws.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Microburst near Amarillo, Texas. Image from the National Severe Storms Laboratory. Credit: Jason Boggs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Phoenix, Arizona, is not known for strong winds, but that all changes when monsoons annually deliver destructive downdrafts like the one that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kjzz.org\/content\/505692\/phoenixs-burton-barr-library-closed-indefinitely-after-flooding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">damaged its five-story Burton Barr Central Library<\/a>. In this piece, and in the interview that follows it, I clear up some of the confusion that still \u00a0whirls around these blasts.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/505882\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Understanding How Microbursts Are Formed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or listen to my interview on <a href=\"http:\/\/kjzz.org\/file\/07-19-17s-gerbismp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KJZZ&#8217;s The Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix, Arizona, is not known for strong winds, but that all changes when monsoons annually deliver destructive downdrafts like the one that\u00a0damaged its five-story Burton Barr Central Library. In this piece, and in the interview that follows it, I clear up some of the confusion that still \u00a0whirls around these blasts. Read\/listen to my full &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taking the Mystery Out of Microbursts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,50,74,3],"tags":[1290,1292,1291,1293,960,1289],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology-and-meteorology","category-geoscience","category-physics","category-science","tag-downburst","tag-macroburst","tag-microburst","tag-storms","tag-weather","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}