A suspected ‘microburst’ has led to tree damage in multiple neighborhoods on Chicago’s Far South Side, with some limbs crashing into cars and homes and…
A suspected ‘microburst’ has led to tree damage in multiple neighborhoods on Chicago’s Far South Side, with some limbs crashing into cars and homes and closing down several streets.Ward Ald. Matthew O’Shea, the suspected microburst occurred during a severe thunderstorm that impacted the Chicago area on Monday afternoon.The National Weather Service received numerous reports of tree damage in several neighborhoods, including Chatham, Grand Crossing, Beverly, Washington Heights and Roseland.
Homes and cars were impacted by some branches, with some roads left “impassable,” according to O’Shea’s office.They occur when an updraft is so strong that it suspends ‘large amounts of droplets and hailstones’ in the upper reaches of a storm, and once the updraft weakens, the core will plummet to the ground and spread in all directions once it gets there.
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