Comment on How can an airplane hit -47°c (-52°f) temperatures while flying over Southern Florida?

slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Obviously I figured it’d be much colder, but I’ve been in -55°f wind chills and it took me being at 8000+ feet elevation, in a northern latitude, in the peak of a record setting winter, for us to hit that. So, yeah I expected freezing temps up there, but -52.6°f is making my brain hurt. It’s just so crazy that I figured it had to include some other weather phenomenon, not just altitude.

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  • Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Every 1000ft you go up, the temperature drops by about 2c

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What do you figure the wind chill of a few hundred mph may be?

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    • BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Irrelevant to those of metal blood.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was once on a fancy airliner that had readouts on the seat backs. One thing you could see was temperature. I believe it was -175F or so. This was also over Florida BTW. Only reason I know about this!

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    • Hacksaw@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s an erroneous readout. Modern aircraft have various limits on air temperature, but none in the negative triple digits.

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      • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You’re right! Looks like it’s more like -70F at 36,000 feet.

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