A group of satellite meteorologists may have finally solved the mystery surrounding the Bermuda Triangle.
The infamous 500,000km square area between Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Miami has been the sight of numerous unexplained disappearances for decades. It's estimated that the triangle has been responsible for at least 1,000 casualties in the last 100 years, along with 75 planes and over 100 ships.
However a team of researchers are now asserting that hexagonal clouds creating “air-bombs” with winds of up to 170mph could be responsible for the unsolved incidents at sea. The storms are so powerful that whole ships and planes could be plunged into the sea in an instant.
Dr Steve Miller, a satellite meteorologist at Colorado State University, told the Science Channel’s What on Earth programme: “You don’t typically see straight edges with clouds. Most of the time, clouds are random in their distribution.“
The research group also found that sea level winds were reaching dangerously high speeds, creating waves as high as 45ft as a result.
Metereologist Randy Cerveny said the hexagonal shapes over the ocean are “in essence air bombs”.
“They are formed by what are called microbursts and they’re blasts of air that come down out of the bottom of a cloud and then hit the ocean,” he explained.
These environmental factors “create waves that can sometimes be massive in size as they start to interact with each other.”
Claims of unusual occurances in the area go back as far as 1492 when Christopher Columbus reported seeing strange lights and compass readings.
Via Independent UK
