Heat Check: Unearthing Weather's Wildest Tales
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Heat Check: Unearthing Weather's Wildest Tales
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About this listen
Join us on "Heat Check" as we dig into the most extreme, bizarre, and sometimes suspicious weather events throughout history. From a disputed world record in the Libyan desert to medieval heatwaves that melted cathedrals, we explore the science, the stories, and the surprising ways humans have tried to understand and predict the unpredictable. Prepare for forensic meteorology, heat bursts that turn towns into ovens, and a 17th-century Prague rabbi's unconventional weather prediction.
Chapters with Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome to Heat Check
01:12 The Hottest Air Temperature Ever Recorded? Al Azizia, Libya (1922)
02:17 90 Years of a Disputed Record: Why Nobody Questioned It
03:20 The Forensic Investigation: Uncovering the Truth Behind Al Azizia
04:20 Five Reasons Why the Record Was Invalidated
06:26 Death Valley Takes the Crown (for now) & The Peachtree City Bust
07:30 When Computers Get It Wrong: The 2000 Georgia Snowstorm
08:32 Peachtree vs. Al Azizia: Why One Was Real and the Other Wasn't
09:34 The Wild Phenomenon of Heat Bursts
10:35 How a Dying Thunderstorm Can Superheat the Air
11:37 Satan's Storm: Copperloo, Texas (1960)
12:41 Could Al Azizia Have Been a Heat Burst?
13:42. Extreme Heat Around the World: Arctic, Canada, Sicily
14:48 Verkhoyansk's 100-Degree Day and Lytton's Fiery Fate
15:49 Medieval Heatwaves: Cathedrals Ablaze & Rivers Dry
17:52 The Prague Rabbi's Winter Prediction (17th Century)
18:55 "Whenever the First of Shvat Falls on a Wednesday..."
20:03 Folk Science & Jewish Law: Explaining the Rabbi's Bedikuta
21:06 Unraveling the Rabbi's Prediction: No Scientific Basis, but a Pattern of Weirdness
22:08 The Human Brain's Trick & Prague's Enduring Weather Record
23:10 Tying It All Together: Listening to the Atmosphere's Signals
24:12 Stay Curious, Stay Cool, and Grab an Extra Blanket
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