Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20141228:21:11:00
Likely to be cold enough to cause significant icing. do you agree with that and do you believe that icing is possible at 32,000 feet? >> absolutely positively. it's been reported and it's completely wrong that you can't get icing up there because it's in the tropics. there's a thing called a standard lapse rate, one degree per thousand feet. i looked it up before i came on air. air temperature at 34,000 feet in that area of the world right now is minus 39 degrees. so at 34,000 feet minus 39 yeah that's about one degree per thousand feet. yes. the tops of those thunderstorms are all ice crystal...
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