Daily News | That loud ‘boom’ heard in South Jersey was caused by an airplane and weather patterns
It wasn’t an earthquake or an explosion. A supersonic military airplane’s flight combined with weather patterns caused a loud “boom” felt across South Jersey on Friday afternoon, reports show.the Shore took to social media to describe a loud noise and shaking near them. Some described the sound of “Derek Warner of Petersburg likened it to “a train or several large trucks going by” for about 30 seconds.
“A sonic boom caused by the plane spread in all directions,” The Press of Atlantic City reported. “However, the inversion effectively puts a lid on the atmosphere. Sound that hits the inversion layer then gets deflected to the surface, adding additional noise to the ground that can then spread far away from the aircraft.”that the combination caused the aircraft to be heard from a distance.
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