The Bermuda Triangle has been notorious throughout history for swallowing up marine and air vehicles and leaving no trace of their whereabouts. New scientific evidence may have solved the mystery of the enigma that has swallowed up many brave souls, like Amelia Earhart.
Stretching from the tip of Florida, to Puerto Rico, and to the island of Bermuda, many conspiracy theorists and pseudoscientists have blamed aliens and supernatural forces for strange occurences, but some satellite meteorologists have observed some weather phenomena in the area.
Air Bombs
Meteorologist Randy Cerveny of the University of Arizona says that they have observed sharply hexagonal clouds measuring 25-55 miles across, highly unusual weather patterns. Cerveny's team revealed to Mother Nature Network that it could be a symptom of sudden microbursts.
"These types of hexagonal shapes over the ocean are in essence air bombs," explained meteorologist Randy Cerveny. "They are formed by what are called microbursts, blasts of air that come down out of the bottom of a cloud and then hit the ocean and then create waves that can sometimes be massive in size as they start to interact with each other."
The team purports that these air bombs can cause winds of up to 170 miles per hour, equivalent to winds from a Class 5 hurricane, as well as waves reaching 45 feet high.
"Not a solid theory"
On the other hand, NBC meteorologist Kevin Corriveau tells NWCN that, "When I look at a hexagonal cloud shape in the Bahamas, this is not the cloud signature of what a microburst looks like. You would normally have one large to extremely large thunderstorm that wouldn't have an opening in the middle."
This was in reaction to Cerveny explaining that a similar, smaller reaction was effective in the North Sea, another area they studied. Corriveau further added that the odd shapeds could be due to small islands in the Bahamas and Carribean heating the air in different ways, creating strange weather patterns.
Though the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle may never truly be solved, the unusual phenomenon surrounding the area has been around since Christopher Columbus's first voyage in 1492, and was coined by Vincent Gaddis, who wrote about it in a February 1964 issue of the magazine "Argosy".
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