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Mystery Booms are Back
16-Apr-2006
Thunderhead, or mystery cloud?
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Dramatic booming noises have been heard in at least two
American cities in recent weeks, in San Diego on April 4 and
Buffalo on April 12. Unusual cloud formations were
photographed in San Diego in 2004.
The clouds appeared very suddenly over the Miramar Marine
Air Station, and did not seem to observers to function like
thunderheads. "Nothing seemed natural about this cloud,"
reports photographer David Hurst. "It hovered above the
ground and wasn't anvil-shaped. There was nothing wispy
around the edges. Although it became mushroom-shaped, the
head seemed more on the thin side than billowy."
The booms that rocked San Diego and Buffalo did not
appear to be sonic booms, and some residents in San Diego
assumed that the sounds were earthquake related. Buffalo
police reported hundreds of calls about the sound there,
which was extremely unusual and dramatic, and woke residents
up after midnight.
Mystery booms have been heard in San Diego
before.
There has never been earthquake activity in
Buffalo, and NOAA reported that there were no earthquakes
in San Diego on April 4.
The booms could be caused by methane explosions on the
ocean floor, but some meteorologists theorize they may be the
result of unusually cold air in the stratosphere colliding
with warm surface air when weather conditions are too dry to
generate storms. Like
the large
blocks of ice that occasionally fall from the sky, they could
therefore a product of
global
warming.
Or they could be the result of something more ominous:
Subscribers
can listen to weatherman Scott Stevens discuss the possible
uses of scalar, or weather weapons on Dreamland last March
4.
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