Weather - Sting jets: narrow blasts of destructive storm winds
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A sting jet is a narrow, fast-moving airstream that descends from the mid-troposphere to the surface during certain extratropical cyclones. First formally identified in 2004 by Keith Browning, sting jets emerge from a storm's cloud head and accelerate downward. They generate damaging wind gusts exceeding 180 kilometers per hour across localized zones under 100 kilometers wide. Because these events last only a few hours and evade most global weather models, forecasters look for atmospheric instability and evaporative cooling to predict them.
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