{"id":338440,"date":"2025-05-28T14:57:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T09:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=338440"},"modified":"2025-06-01T12:13:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T06:43:34","slug":"bow-echo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bow-echo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bow Echo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The intense storm that hit Delhi recently appeared in an unusual shape in the India Meteorological Department\u2019s (IMD\u2019s) weather radar imagery. The storm looked like a crescent or an archer\u2019s bow. In technical terms, such presentations of storms are called \u201c<strong>bow echoes<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2>About Bow Echo<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_338441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-338441\" style=\"width: 321px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-338441\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Source-IE.png?resize=321%2C366&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Source-IE.png?resize=263%2C300&amp;ssl=1 263w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Source-IE.png?resize=768%2C878&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Source-IE.png?w=770&amp;ssl=1 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-338441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; IE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A bow echo is essentially <strong>a line of storms<\/strong>, also called a <strong>squall line<\/strong>, on the radar that looks like a bow.\n<ul>\n<li>This squall line can sometimes be <strong>embedded in a larger squall line<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Bow echoes are often <strong>associated with severe weather<\/strong>, including damaging straight-line winds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Naming:<\/strong> The term was coined in the <strong>1970s by Ted Fujita<\/strong>, a Japanese American meteorologist known for developing the scale to classify tornadoes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Range:<\/strong> A bow echo can extend from <strong>20 km to 100 km<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Timeframe:<\/strong> It can last between <strong>three and six hours<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Formation<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>When rain-cooled air comes down to the ground, and spreads out horizontally, a boundary called the gust front is created between the rain-cooled air and warm-moist air on the surface.<\/li>\n<li>This front pushes up the warm-moist air into the atmosphere, which forms new thunderstorms.<\/li>\n<li>These new thunderstorms produce more rain, thereby creating more rain-cooled air, which helps the gust front to maintain its strength.<\/li>\n<li>As this process keeps repeating itself, there comes a point when there is an inflow of air on the trailing side of the line of storms and bends it like an archer\u2019s bow.<\/li>\n<li>The cycle lasts as long as new thunderstorms keep forming at the front, helping the system grow and move forward with strong winds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Derecho<\/strong>: If the bow echo (or series of bow echoes) progresses more than 400 kilometers with widespread wind gusts 93 km\/h or greater, then the bow echo is <strong>classified as a derecho<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The intense storm that hit Delhi recently appeared in an unusual shape in the India Meteorological Department\u2019s (IMD\u2019s) weather radar imagery. The storm looked like a crescent or an archer\u2019s bow. In technical terms, such presentations of storms are called \u201cbow echoes\u201d. About Bow Echo A bow echo is essentially a line of storms,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bow-echo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bow Echo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":338441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-338440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Source-IE.png?fit=770%2C880&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}