Talk:Microburst

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a microburst is a very localized column of sinking air, producing damaging divergent and straight line winds at the surface that are similar to but distinguishable from tornadoes which generally have convergent damage

[edit] Flight numbers listed in article

I'd find the dates of those flights out and include them in the article. Airlines recycle the use of airline numbers. For all we know, those flight numbers are used daily/weekly. I'd hate to think we're predicting a weekly airline crash on the main page! Thegreatdr 23:00, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Better image

I would prefer this one: 172.180.244.116 09:57, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Microburst schematic from NASA. Note the downward motion of the air until it hits ground level, then spreads outward in all directions. The wind regime in a microburst is completely opposite to a tornado.
Microburst schematic from NASA. Note the downward motion of the air until it hits ground level, then spreads outward in all directions. The wind regime in a microburst is completely opposite to a tornado.
I agree. I've replaced it. - ∅ (∅), 13:42, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article assumes reader is in the US

This article assumes the reader is in the US. The section on dry microbursts mentions the High Plains and the table that contrasts dry and wet microbursts lists the most likely locations as the Midwest/West and Southeast respectively. Given that Wikipedia is an international collaboration with an international readership, locations should be qualified, e.g. "High Plains of the western United States".

If I was to update an article on orographic rainfall to say that the phenomenon was most common in the South-West, this would most likely leave American readers scratching their heads, not realising that I was referring to the South-West of Ireland!

--Davidmccormack 16:28, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

You're right, which means it violates NPOV as it shows the topic from a certain geographical bias. Smacked a POV tag on the page until the article gets a more international representation. The met project has been able to do this properly in the tornado and tropical cyclone articles, why not this one? Thegreatdr (talk) 22:41, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

I wouldn't call this a neutrality problem as such. Evercat (talk) 01:58, 26 March 2008 (UTC)