In some parts of the world, these powerful storms are a regular occurrence. The United States alone experiences more than 1,000 tornadoes a year, and the storms have originated on every continent except Antarctica [source: Tarbuck]. While most storms are weak and occur in sparsely populated ...
In some parts of the world, these powerful storms are a regular occurrence. The United States alone experiences more than 1,000 tornadoes a year, and the storms have originated on every continent except Antarctica [source: Tarbuck]. While most storms are weak and occur in sparsely populated ...
Are you coming along for the ride?你准备要参与其中了么？Tornadoes begin with a thunderstorm but not just any thunderstorm.龙卷风的开始是雷暴，但是却不止是普通的雷暴。These are especially powerful, towering thunderstorms called supercells.非常强大，非常激烈的雷暴，被称为超级雷暴云。Reaching up to ov...
Tornadoes—one of mother nature’s most incredible and powerful phenomena—are destructive and can be downright deadly, too. In fact, the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)—a research lab under the umbrella of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—says that tornadoes “...
Fire whirls, which are like tornadoes, result from the vortices created by the fire's heat. When these vortices are tilted from horizontal to vertical, you get fire whirls. Fire whirls have been known to hurl flaming logs and burning debris over considerable distances. "There's another way...
So, what has to happen for a wildfire to get so extreme that it spins off tornadoes? Asprofessors who studywildfires and weather, we can offer some insights. How extreme fire conditions form Fires have three basic elements: heat, fuel and oxygen. ...
As climate change stokes larger and more intense wildfires, firestorms are likely to become more common. Here’s why they occur and what makes them so dangerous.
The National Weather Service saysJuneis typically the most active month for tornadoes in Michigan. We don't often see super powerful twisters in The Mitten; as the above list states it's mostEF-0(wind speeds between 65-85 mph) orEF-1(wind speeds between 86-110 mph) but that's certainl...
The National Weather Service saysJuneis typically the most active month for tornadoes in Michigan. We don't often see super powerful twisters in The Mitten; as the above list states it's mostEF-0(wind speeds between 65-85 mph) orEF-1(wind speeds between 86-110 mph) but that's certainl...
Making that connection requires more chasing, and these scientists are fine with that. Take Tornado Warnings Seriously “We joke in this field that we’re genetically modified to do this,” says Houser, whose passion for tornadoes and meteorology started in the second grade. “We had a science...