Microbursts aren’t technically very common occurrences, but the Bermuda Triangle seems to be a hotspot for this kind of activity.
This is for sure an interesting theory that makes a lot of sense. These incredible forces of nature have been responsible for the loss of more than 1,000 lives in the past 100 years, and at least four planes and 20 ships are said to go missing on an annual basis. In a microburst, a high-speed burst of air exits the clouds in the sky and forces its way down towards the Earth's surface or in this case, the Atlantic Ocean. “Most of the time, clouds are random in their distribution.” “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 and then create waves that can sometimes be massive in size as they start to interact with each other,” Meteorologist Randy Cerveny explains. These ‘air bombs,’ more prominently known to the world as microbursts, can occur in certain atmospheric conditions and can literally swat a plane out of the air and over-turn large ships with Hurricane-force wind speeds of more than 170 miles per hour.
