After the Storm
Middle Village, queens has never really been “on the map”. In the past two days, we’ve had more news coverage than, well, ever. New York was hit with two tornadoes on the 16th, rating a 0 and a 1 on the Enhanced Fujita scale. “Minor to moderate damage.”
While my neighborhood missed the tornadoes, we ran into another fun little weather anomaly. It’s called a “macroburst”, and it is worse than an EF1 tornado. As defined by Wikipedia, macrobursts are “a downburst created by a column of sinking air that, after hitting ground level, spreads out in all directions and is capable of producing damaging straight-line winds of over 150 mph, often producing damage similar to, but distinguishable from, that caused by tornadoes.” It’s VERY similar, I can tell you that much.
Might update this with more info or more pictures tomorrow.
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