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

JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨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 ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Every 1000ft you go up, the temperature drops by about 2c

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corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You’re right! Looks like it’s more like -70F at 36,000 feet.
    
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