Brrr! How Much Can Temperatures Drop During a Total Solar Eclipse?

[Dryson]

https://www.space.com/37201-solar-eclipse-temperature-drop.html

Should parents with newborns make certain their infants and small children are bundled up extra good to keep their body temperature at a normal temperature for this time of the year so that the sudden drop in temperature and then the sudden increase in temperature possibly causing TSC (Total Solar Eclipse)Influenza?
Should parents with newborns make certain their infants and small children are bundled up extra good to keep their body temperature at a normal temperature for this time of the year so that the sudden drop in temperature and then the sudden increase in temperature possibly causing TSC (Total Solar Eclipse)Influenza?

 

[Santaman]

Eh.. dude, influenza is a virus, it has nothing to do with whatever temperature drop, rise etc, same with the cold, it is a virus, nothing temperature related there, else imagine pissed off inuit 24/7/365 because its so cold in the places they live..

 

[sojourner]

Ten whole degrees! lasting for a few minutes at most! My God! it's the end of the world!!!!

 

[Marc]

Ten whole degrees! lasting for a few minutes at most! My God! it's the end of the world!!!!

hell there are times when you don't need a solar eclipse to get a temperature drop like at - a simple cool change from a weather system can have the save effect (and last longer).

 

[sojourner]

Yep, here in Florida, thunderstorms are dropping temps 10 degrees locally all the time. Dryson should know this, he's from florida too.

 

[publiusr]

In terms of eclipse viewing...

For any educators out there--it looks like glasses will be made available to view the event at no charge--except for shipping:

https://www.astronomerswithoutborde...haring-programs/eclipse-glasses-giveaway.html
https://www.space.com/37276-astronomers-without-borders-solar-eclipse-glasses-giveaway.html

http://eclipsophile.com/

 

[MacLeod]

Ten whole degrees! lasting for a few minutes at most! My God! it's the end of the world!!!!

Ten degrees sounds like a huge drop. I doubt it drops from 30C to 20C, saying most eclipses only last a few minutes.

 

[publiusr]

There can be a shift in wind direction
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...lipses-winds-weather-sun-earth-space-science/

I seem to remember that a cirrus boundary and a clear slot played a role in the 1999 Moore Twister--but you had to have great instability for that.

An equinox can do more than an eclipse--though some question that:
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/equinoctial-storm

Not to be confused with the film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox_(film)

Still, during the equinoxes, you can get get vortices near the South Pole:

Towards evening, the air about the Hut was quite still except for gusts from the north and rather frequent ‘whirlies’.

This was the name adopted for whirlwinds of a few yards to a hundred yards or more in diameter which came to be regarded as peculiar to the country. Similar disturbances have been observed in every part of the world, but seldom possessed of the same violence and regularity as is the case in Adélie Land.

The whirlies tracked about in a most irregular manner and woe betide any light object which came in their path. The velocity of the wind in the rotating column being very great, a corresponding lifting power was imparted to it.

http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-...n/mawsons-book/home-of-the-blizzard/chapter07

Misc: https://weather.com/storms/tornado/news/strange-tornado-paths
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Grand_Island_tornado_outbreak
https://findwords.info/term/purga

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Ten degrees sounds like a huge drop. I doubt it drops from 30C to 20C, saying most eclipses only last a few minutes.

You can get a similar effect from clouds, which can persist far longer. Perhaps people's ability to think rationality has been affected by the bad science about solar eclipses depicted in Heroes.