"here we are this big rock in space, we've covered 70% of the surface with water. Then we've got this crazy gas around the entire planet. That's our atmosphere. We're spinning it a thousand miles an hour as we're rocketing through the solar system. The sun is roasting one half and the other half is facing the vast void of space and is cooling." is going to start being my reason to get a second slice of cake for dessert
When i hear the question about opening your windows during a tornado, my response is always "if the tornado wants your windows open, it'll open em for you"
Wanted to be a meteorologist studying tornadoes and thunderstorms since I was 5. Going to school for it next year (when I'm 25) so this video was an instant click and made my heart skip a beat
I was in southwest part of Wichita with my kids (probably Haysville) April 26th, 1991 when a bunch of tornados where coming through. My kids and I had been in our motel room eating tacos, when my oldest son looked out a high window and said, "That cloud looks like a tornado.". It was! We had only the motel's hallway to take cover in. That initial tornado made significant damage to McConnell AFB. Our building was untouched. After that one passed, all of the motel guests were looking out the door at the end of the hall that opened to the outside. There were a mix of large and skinny tornados (5-7) heading towards our motel. They either passed far north of our location or dissipated. That event was most memorable for the amount of tornadoes we saw that day. I've lived through many a tornado, having lived in south central Kansas for 5 years. Also others in Iowa and Illinois. One was on a 2 day canoe trip where I took shelter in a ditch with my father. The smell is something you'll never forget. And the sound of a freight train. I sure wish we'd had cell phone camera's back on the fateful day.
@@matchesburn hmm not sure if that is completely accurate. A quick search on NOAA states there was 17 named storms, 7 which reached hurricane status, and 3 which strengthened into major hurricanes. Nonetheless, it’s a prediction as to what is expected it’s not an exact estimate
@@brennanshamburger Every year, people predict its gonna be the year of all years for hurricanes. At some point, someone will be right. It's like a broken clock is right twice a day. If you keep predicting something, it's bound to happen eventually (within reason of course, predicting 500,000 hurricanes isn't going to happen).
I love that my family's tornado video is still being shared ever where. Washington, Illinois tornado November 2013 filmed till I was pushed down the steps
"Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas" Nebraska: "What am I chopped liver to you?" Seriously though, we get so many tornados, and I was always told we were part of the valley
Hmm, was it truly a real tornado, or just something similar, like a landspout etc., also there seems to be no record of a tornado striking Oahu or Hawaii for that matter in 1968., or are you referring to a different area that is called Oahu
@herisuryadi6885 I saw it slice a pickup truck and its driver in half lengthwise, so I don't much care what it was called. It looked like a tornado to me and, apparently, to the United States Air Force.
Yeah, I was the idiot kid who'd park my lawn chair in the driveway next to the all-metal mailbox during a thunderstorm. "Nature wouldn't dare interfere with delivery of the mail, right?"
@@marty0063 the electric field inside a conductor is zero, so you have probable chances of escaping a lightning strike on your roof, but I'd say you got lucky.
@@laxminarayananks1520 that’s good to know thanks. Lightning strikes were never that close to our house when I was outside. I don’t believe our house ever got struck either despite having a metal roof. Many houses in town had them. But I did get lucky another time after we’d moved to another city. I was outside cleaning up birthday decorations that had been blown all over the place in a sudden unexpected storm when there was a loud boom and everything around me was yellow. I forgot about the cleaning and went inside very quickly. Another time there was a close lightning strike to our house and an electrical toy in my son’s room that we weren’t in at the moment started playing music. It’s never done that before. Someone has to push the buttons for it to start playing music. I’ve always wondered how the storm was able to cause that to happen.
I must tell this story here. When my son was about 3-1/2 years old, he explained the weather this way : "The world spins and it makes the wind. Then the wind pushes the clouds together until they pop and it rains." At the time I was so impressed that I couldn't even argue with him, though now I wish I had thought to quiz him further.
To the thunder question at 18:38, when lightning strikes it heats the air to about 25 000 degrees Celsius or 45 000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is about 5x the temperature of the surface of the sun, so the air heats up and expands so quickly like she said and you hear that loud noise. P.S. Wrote this before watching the next part. lol
Ozone is part of the mixed gases we smell when we "smell rain". The distinct smell was remarked by scientists in the late 1800s, Australian scientists used the term "Petrichor" for the bundle of smells in 1964. Ms Arnold mentioned rain + asphalt smells which is probably what most of us now smell most often.
This was fascinating! I'm a self-proclaimed weather junkie - she explained everything so concisely and with such enthusiasm. Wired always knows where it's at with these experts 💯
Cyrena is my favorite meteorologist! She's answered many of my (probably dumb) questions but always so informative and you can feel how much she loves to teach/talk about all weather and scientific aspects of it. I'm a Weather Weenie of hers, you should be too.
A small correction on the "smell of rain" answer: Yes, some of that smell is pollutants. But that's not all you're smelling. You're also smelling oils released by plants and bacteria in the soil. It's called petrichor.
Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted to be a meteorologist. Going to study it next year in college. (I'm 17) Can't believe I went back to the first thing I ever wanted to be. I hope 7 year old me is proud
Just to be clear, I wasn't asking that myths question, I was answering it LOL! I'm also a meteorologist and wrote that blog article to help explain the myths vs facts of weather. Thanks for the mention though that was cool LOL!
The "lightning doesn't strike the same place twice" adage is so weird because it doesn't even require a meteorology degree to debunk. Lightning rods wouldn't function if it were true.
4:55 fully shut car windows are actually surprisingly strong. you could easily (with a glove) punch through a window that is open, but your hand will break first if the window is shut.
1:45 is my favorite part. a lot of things that seem really easy, or very predictable, is because the experts who spend their entire lives studying certain fields KNOW what to look for or take into consideration what the average person wouldn't even think of or understand
Hold up, tornadoes can cross rivers? Next you're going to tell me that they can cross thresholds uninvited and don't have to count grains of rice! Honestly, I'd never heard that myth. The mountainous terrain thing was definitely something I used to believe though.
@@caudleryan123 I'm terribly sorry you had to experience that. Tornadoes scare me far more than the volcanoes I live near. But I wasn't being serious; of course they can cross rivers. I was making a joke about old vampire traditions. That being that they cannot cross running water and have an insatiable need to count things like grains of rice before proceeding with their business.
I can prove that tornadoes can go over rivers and mountains and last a while because it literally happened to me - search the June 1st, 2011 tornado in Massachusetts. It was our freakiest storm ever and one I'll never forget.
Former swimmer here. I can confirm that it's protocol to get out of the water as soon as we see lightnings or hear thunders. We can continue swimming of it's just raining, but as soon as electrical activity begins, everybody's out of the water
Great example of Tornadoes hitting mounine areas is Albuquerque NM 1985. It was a EF2 and caused 1 death. It his lousisiana and I40 area. Salt Lake city also had a Tornado which was also a EF2 this also caused 1 death and a lot of damage.
She said it's unlikely that two will combine, but that even if they do, their forces won't multiply to make a 'super tornado'. It's true that when two get close to each other, they usually cancel out.
Think she could've mentioned the Fujiwara Effect with this instance. Basically, the 2 cyclones will rotate around a common point before they either disperse, or the dominant core destroys the weaker core. When the dominant core removes the weaker core, it will be weaker itself but could re-intensify if conditions are right.
She was just dispelling what you always see in movies where two storms merge and create a super storm. In most cases two cyclones merging are more likely to disrupt each other, but in rare cases can become much stronger together.
Another thing worth noting in the trailer shown there about it; The Twin tornadoes did not combine in the movie, and the large tornado shown after that comment is a total different one on a different day. So there the trailer tricked us, lol.
spot on and didn't waste time to answer each question. also very informative and educational! ...now i wanna have ma favorite show stormchasers again :/
Tornado Alley actually has 3 different areas based upon what month it is. Overall with them: it's basically Texas to the Dakots (north and south) with Nebraska to Indiana (east and west.) How do I know? The strongest August F5 Tornado in the country happened a week after I was born. The Plainfield Tornado of 28 August 1990 with winds estimated up to 320 mph but usually said between 305 and 310 based on what source you go to. The cloud that spun it went directly over me in Aurora, Illinois. I will never go by the Enhanced Fujita Scale.
Yeah this is wrong. Only thing I can agree is the ef scale is wrong.I’m sorry just cause you were a newborn during a tornado doesn’t mean yk science I lived through 2 different ef5s my family 3 but I’m not over here saying that means ik everything😭😭 Anyways no tornado alley doesn’t go into the dakotas. Other places then tornado alley have tornados just not as common. The only one your right about is Nebraska is apart of the alley , but Indiana ain’t, if anything their Dixie alley. Also I’m sorry but the strongest ef5 wasn’t even the Plainfield tornado, Plainfield had 321 mph ,it was the Moore bridge creek Oklahoma tornado with 324 mph winds, strongest winds recorded , ever Plainfield was only the strongest in that state . And the Moore bridge creek only had the strongest winds the strongest was the tri state tornado. (Also I found it funny “have you lived through 1999” you said you were a week old? You didn’t even remember the tornado, as another ef5 survivor , no other survivor thinks this way your on your ownnn😭😭)
Really nice! But also as a reminder, water is does not conduct electricity, you do, water just has a very low level of resistance aka electricity can move through it more freely.
Yes and no, while a conductor and a resistor are clearly stated as differing things, all or most materials are affected by strong enough electromagnetic forces, and to say that water just has a very low level of resistance basically means it, like many other things, can be subject to dielectric breakdown. I'm probably being a bit pedantic but it becomes a slippery slope with electricity. Water itself is not much of a conductor, but the ionic constituents make it so.
18:59 here in Germany we are thought to count 3 seconds after a lightning to know the thunderstorm is 1km out. This was a super interesting video and I've learned a new word I'd never heard before "Nor'easter".
A simpler way to answer the question of how we predict weather is that we can track and measure what’s happening over a vast area of land and find patterns that allow us to build models that combine previously observed patterns with current conditions.
Just saw the movie. Really liked it. Started a bit slow, but got better as it went. Some of the things they did, I don’t believe are possible at this time. For example, triangulating a tornado that is constantly moving and changing. The movie (and the previous movie) made it seem like you see tornados every time you chase.
I wish I could have sent in a question. The day this was uploaded, it had been storming outside all day where I live, but eventually the strong storms passed and all that was left was heavy rain, except for a single, extremely loud crack of thunder which startled me. I've heard of super bolts, and I wonder if that was one of them.
"Tornadoes can cross water." Yes, because whoever came up with the myth that tornadoes can't cross water clearly was mixing up a tornado with a vampire.
I've watched plenty of secondary vortices around main tornadoes. Eventually they become assimilated. I dont believe it makes the main vortex stronger, but they do spawn nearby and merge regularly.
13:20 another thing that is definantly unrealistic is the tornado where they are under a bridge and i think they said it was an Ef3 maybe a 2 idk but anyways it literally demolished a barn in a second while for the Ef5 it took a couple second.... erm logic
I don’t mind that meteorologists can’t predict weather very far ahead. I mind that so many apps and news organizations pretend that they can. I have learned to take the long-range forecast as an expected trend that may change tomorrow. But they never seem to include a disclaimer right up front about the data they offer us.
I'm feeling so validated for waiting out after a thunderstorm seems to end before going out Although it does end up sometimes in needing to pause/stop the errands because Thunderstorm Part II is rolling in 😅
"here we are this big rock in space, we've covered 70% of the surface with water. Then we've got this crazy gas around the entire planet. That's our atmosphere. We're spinning it a thousand miles an hour as we're rocketing through the solar system. The sun is roasting one half and the other half is facing the vast void of space and is cooling." is going to start being my reason to get a second slice of cake for dessert
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i came to the comments to see this written out 😸💖
Eat dessert first!
Me when I’m failing a class
When i hear the question about opening your windows during a tornado, my response is always "if the tornado wants your windows open, it'll open em for you"
Yeah, it's funny how she just casually mentions flying two-by-four debris in there...
Wanted to be a meteorologist studying tornadoes and thunderstorms since I was 5. Going to school for it next year (when I'm 25) so this video was an instant click and made my heart skip a beat
You can do it! Best wishes
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Best of luck.
Me too! I’m starting my journey to my degree in the fall of 25! ❤
Awesome! I'm going for atmospheric sciences. I've always loved meteorology.
Tornado earrings, nice touch!
Ms. Frizzle!
My idiotic brain was trying to figure out which state or country these earrings were. And theyre twisters. 🌪️😂
A friend of mine sells them!
Came to say this
I never new lady stormchasers existed.
Her rant about "and you want me to tell you what's happening in 5 days?" was just too good.
I love the way she answers questions with just the right amount of information.
I thought she'd be long winded.
ha
Ah! Ahhhh haha!
You need to rain in the puns.
Well played.
Touché 💀💀
I was in southwest part of Wichita with my kids (probably Haysville) April 26th, 1991 when a bunch of tornados where coming through. My kids and I had been in our motel room eating tacos, when my oldest son looked out a high window and said, "That cloud looks like a tornado.". It was! We had only the motel's hallway to take cover in. That initial tornado made significant damage to McConnell AFB. Our building was untouched. After that one passed, all of the motel guests were looking out the door at the end of the hall that opened to the outside. There were a mix of large and skinny tornados (5-7) heading towards our motel. They either passed far north of our location or dissipated. That event was most memorable for the amount of tornadoes we saw that day. I've lived through many a tornado, having lived in south central Kansas for 5 years. Also others in Iowa and Illinois. One was on a 2 day canoe trip where I took shelter in a ditch with my father. The smell is something you'll never forget. And the sound of a freight train. I sure wish we'd had cell phone camera's back on the fateful day.
Wow!
That sounds like either pure adrenaline or nightmare fuel, depending on who's telling the story. Regardless, that is absolutely insane!
It's interesting that you say the smell was unforgettable. What did it smell like?
@@ninjabiscuit electricity
The smell might be ozone, which can be produced by lightning.
Wired has it down to a science with these videos. 💯💯
10:30 I'm here post-Helene and mid-Milton. Guess they weren't wrong about that, huh.
Came here to comment this! What a prediction that was
...They were wrong about there being 23 named storms, however.
There were 13 named storms for 2024. 9 of which were hurricanes.
@@matchesburn hmm not sure if that is completely accurate. A quick search on NOAA states there was 17 named storms, 7 which reached hurricane status, and 3 which strengthened into major hurricanes. Nonetheless, it’s a prediction as to what is expected it’s not an exact estimate
@@brennanshamburger Every year, people predict its gonna be the year of all years for hurricanes. At some point, someone will be right. It's like a broken clock is right twice a day. If you keep predicting something, it's bound to happen eventually (within reason of course, predicting 500,000 hurricanes isn't going to happen).
@@ericweeks8386 did you not see too powerful hurricanes wreck havoc this year? What hole were you hiding in? Science deniers are 2 digit IQ muppets.
I love that my family's tornado video is still being shared ever where. Washington, Illinois tornado November 2013 filmed till I was pushed down the steps
I have watched a lot about that tornado. That was a crazy one
"Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas"
Nebraska: "What am I chopped liver to you?"
Seriously though, we get so many tornados, and I was always told we were part of the valley
shes way off all the maps have Ne in it
@onyxdevil26 oh good, I'm not crazy 😭
Definitely not Tornado Alley but Xenia, Ohio is cursed. I wouldn't live there if both Musk and Bezos gave me all their money to do it.
@@neko7606she is trying to get a climate change comment in. Dixie Alley has been getting bad tornados for decades. This isn't new.
The Alley goes all the way to Illinois lol this take was weirdly reductive
My fourth grade field trip encountered the first recorded tornado on Oah'u. This was in 1968.
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Hmm, was it truly a real tornado, or just something similar, like a landspout etc.,
also there seems to be no record of a tornado striking Oahu or Hawaii for that matter in 1968., or are you referring to a different area that is called Oahu
@herisuryadi6885 I saw it slice a pickup truck and its driver in half lengthwise, so I don't much care what it was called. It looked like a tornado to me and, apparently, to the United States Air Force.
@@vlmellody51tf lol
I’m the person that sits on the porch when lighting is happening haha
Haha, me too. Before we moved I’d sit on the front porch to listen to the thunder and watch the rain. We had a metal roof as well.
Same, i love watching the lightning
Yeah, I was the idiot kid who'd park my lawn chair in the driveway next to the all-metal mailbox during a thunderstorm. "Nature wouldn't dare interfere with delivery of the mail, right?"
@@marty0063 the electric field inside a conductor is zero, so you have probable chances of escaping a lightning strike on your roof, but I'd say you got lucky.
@@laxminarayananks1520 that’s good to know thanks. Lightning strikes were never that close to our house when I was outside. I don’t believe our house ever got struck either despite having a metal roof. Many houses in town had them. But I did get lucky another time after we’d moved to another city. I was outside cleaning up birthday decorations that had been blown all over the place in a sudden unexpected storm when there was a loud boom and everything around me was yellow. I forgot about the cleaning and went inside very quickly. Another time there was a close lightning strike to our house and an electrical toy in my son’s room that we weren’t in at the moment started playing music. It’s never done that before. Someone has to push the buttons for it to start playing music. I’ve always wondered how the storm was able to cause that to happen.
I must tell this story here. When my son was about 3-1/2 years old, he explained the weather this way : "The world spins and it makes the wind. Then the wind pushes the clouds together until they pop and it rains." At the time I was so impressed that I couldn't even argue with him, though now I wish I had thought to quiz him further.
Ahaha
To the thunder question at 18:38, when lightning strikes it heats the air to about 25 000 degrees Celsius or 45 000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is about 5x the temperature of the surface of the sun, so the air heats up and expands so quickly like she said and you hear that loud noise.
P.S. Wrote this before watching the next part. lol
Storm chasers are heroes in my area. Y'all keep us alerted and safe. Thank you!!
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I like that she’s wearing tornado earrings.
Surprised she didn't mention ozone in answer to "can you smell rain?" That's common, measurable, and well documented! 😎✌️
i was waiting to hear the word "petrichor" but it never happened. as a pluviophile, i feel the magic in that word.
Ozone is part of the mixed gases we smell when we "smell rain". The distinct smell was remarked by scientists in the late 1800s, Australian scientists used the term "Petrichor" for the bundle of smells in 1964. Ms Arnold mentioned rain + asphalt smells which is probably what most of us now smell most often.
meh, she got a couple things wrong, like the water answer as well. It's ok.
@kimm6589 don't stop there. Tell us exactly what she got wrong. Personally, I would love to know.
@@pynn1000 And Dr. A.J. Hagen-Smit used O³ in determining the processes of vehicle-smog formation in Southern California back in the day!
This was fascinating! I'm a self-proclaimed weather junkie - she explained everything so concisely and with such enthusiasm. Wired always knows where it's at with these experts 💯
Growing up, Twister was one of my favorite movies. :D
Great video, great answers, great delivery and camera presence!
Cyrena is my favorite meteorologist! She's answered many of my (probably dumb) questions but always so informative and you can feel how much she loves to teach/talk about all weather and scientific aspects of it.
I'm a Weather Weenie of hers, you should be too.
One of the best of these i've seen. Clear, informative and direct without being dry or humourless.
8:27 - I did not expect to see Tomasz Schafernaker, BBC meteorologist extraordinare, namechecked on this episode!
You’d think he’d already know this stuff. 😂
DVD-sized hale!? Wow. Fortunately it wasn’t CD sized
If it was 📼-sized, we'd be screwed.
It's called a VC (video cassette) @@oscarcacnio8418
@@oscarcacnio8418 Laserdisc!
I think they used DVD because my younger brother, who is 20 mind you, asked me what a CD was 😢
Hail that can store 4.7GB of data? Good thing it wasn't dual layer, or worse: Blu-ray!
2:14 “Scientifically, that’s kinda what happens” LMFAOOOOOO
6:12 that radar image is the 1999 Moore tornado, my family lost everything because of this tornado...
I'm so sorry this happened to you. That was a terrible tornado.
Feelsbadman. Sorry for your loss.
A small correction on the "smell of rain" answer: Yes, some of that smell is pollutants. But that's not all you're smelling. You're also smelling oils released by plants and bacteria in the soil. It's called petrichor.
A small correction: petrichor is specifically and importantly defined as the odor rain. If there's no rain, by definition there's no petrichor.
@@cleverusername9369A bit pedantic while not considering they were basically implying with rain...
Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted to be a meteorologist. Going to study it next year in college. (I'm 17) Can't believe I went back to the first thing I ever wanted to be. I hope 7 year old me is proud
Funny how they made it look like meteorologist Tomasz Schafernaker was asking them a question 🤣
Literally thought the same 😂
Can y’all do a part 2??? I could listen to her all day 👏🏼👏🏼
Just to be clear, I wasn't asking that myths question, I was answering it LOL! I'm also a meteorologist and wrote that blog article to help explain the myths vs facts of weather. Thanks for the mention though that was cool LOL!
A good example of the risk of using SEO terms in your posts lol
This is such a great episode!! One of my favorites of this series overall!! Part 2 please ❤️😊
I can't smell rain or feel it but I can definitely feel the humidity rising. And it's not a good feeling at all.
The "lightning doesn't strike the same place twice" adage is so weird because it doesn't even require a meteorology degree to debunk. Lightning rods wouldn't function if it were true.
its a saying not a fact
4:55 fully shut car windows are actually surprisingly strong. you could easily (with a glove) punch through a window that is open, but your hand will break first if the window is shut.
How well do you think it will stop a 2x4 going a few hundred miles an hour?
@timothyhouse1622 man I'm just saying, it's better to close them to keep them open for strength, obviously with enough force, anything will break.
Once sheltered during an F3 in 1990 I heard a distinct growling into a dull roar, not the typical frieght train
I've always been a bit of a weather nerd and for the last few years I've been a trained storm spotter. I could listen to her all day.
1:45 is my favorite part. a lot of things that seem really easy, or very predictable, is because the experts who spend their entire lives studying certain fields KNOW what to look for or take into consideration what the average person wouldn't even think of or understand
Hold up, tornadoes can cross rivers? Next you're going to tell me that they can cross thresholds uninvited and don't have to count grains of rice!
Honestly, I'd never heard that myth. The mountainous terrain thing was definitely something I used to believe though.
Yep. The 1925 Tri-State tornado crossed the Mississippi River.
The 2019 Wetumpka, AL tornado that took out our house crossed the Coosa River and very nearly hit the hospital. We lived right next to the river.
@@caudleryan123 I'm terribly sorry you had to experience that. Tornadoes scare me far more than the volcanoes I live near.
But I wasn't being serious; of course they can cross rivers. I was making a joke about old vampire traditions. That being that they cannot cross running water and have an insatiable need to count things like grains of rice before proceeding with their business.
@@BIGBLOCK5022006 The 1925 tri state tornado must have been a product of "climate change", based on her words.
Omg!!!! It’s Cyrena!!!!! I was so happy to see her face on my “recommended videos” after being away on vacation for a week! She’s amazing!
Anyone here in 2024 hearing non stop about hurricane Milton? :(
Please bring her back for another episode. I’m not into weather or storm chasing but this was so informative and entertaining. I loved it!
She’s so well spoken and clear about her explanations. Excellent communication. Shes awesome.
I love all scientists, but I have a special place in my heart for people like her. I refuse to elaborate.
Lol...
You did great, Cyrena!! Thank you for your incredible education ❤
Just had some insane storms last night that wrecked power for a ton of people so this is timely
9:19 really wish I saw this when it came out. Cause this hurricane season was crazy.
The second question was phrased the exact way I would have asked it. Thank you for your service hero
I can prove that tornadoes can go over rivers and mountains and last a while because it literally happened to me - search the June 1st, 2011 tornado in Massachusetts. It was our freakiest storm ever and one I'll never forget.
I remember watching it on the news. The tornado literally formed right in front of the sky camera. It was pretty surreal.
Former swimmer here. I can confirm that it's protocol to get out of the water as soon as we see lightnings or hear thunders. We can continue swimming of it's just raining, but as soon as electrical activity begins, everybody's out of the water
Floridian with more common sense than others here, it's unbelievably common for people to casually continue swimming during thunderstorms here.
Excuse me ma'am Missouri has been apart of Tornado Alley my whole 27 years... We even learned that in science class in elementary school...
Right, it never moved. Radars were just prioritized out there first. All the major outbreaks have happened outside "Tornado Alley"
@@slayer18726Yup, Missouri is known for strong violent tornadoes.
Great example of Tornadoes hitting mounine areas is Albuquerque NM 1985. It was a EF2 and caused 1 death. It his lousisiana and I40 area. Salt Lake city also had a Tornado which was also a EF2 this also caused 1 death and a lot of damage.
"Tornadoes won't combine to form one super tornado"
* Hesston, Kansas has entered the chat*
Thank you! I was just thinking, this happened not too long ago
She said it's unlikely that two will combine, but that even if they do, their forces won't multiply to make a 'super tornado'. It's true that when two get close to each other, they usually cancel out.
Think she could've mentioned the Fujiwara Effect with this instance. Basically, the 2 cyclones will rotate around a common point before they either disperse, or the dominant core destroys the weaker core. When the dominant core removes the weaker core, it will be weaker itself but could re-intensify if conditions are right.
She was just dispelling what you always see in movies where two storms merge and create a super storm. In most cases two cyclones merging are more likely to disrupt each other, but in rare cases can become much stronger together.
Another thing worth noting in the trailer shown there about it; The Twin tornadoes did not combine in the movie, and the large tornado shown after that comment is a total different one on a different day. So there the trailer tricked us, lol.
Literally just got tangentially into tornadoes/chasing within the past week or so and of course this pops up!
this was a really good one and she spoke in such an engaging way! hope to see a sequel!
10:24 She's perfectly correct. 😮
This lady was inspirational. My favorite of the series so far
Good timing! just had a derecho run through here last night
9:14 man, AccuWeather truly living up to their name.
I love listening to competent people.
spot on and didn't waste time to answer each question. also very informative and educational!
...now i wanna have ma favorite show stormchasers again :/
There are tons of storm chasers including reed that livestream their chases here on TH-cam. Not the same but still very interesting
I could genuinely listen to this lady all day
The tornado earrings! Love.
Fascinating. Thank you!
Wow! This service is so good!
Tornado Alley actually has 3 different areas based upon what month it is. Overall with them: it's basically Texas to the Dakots (north and south) with Nebraska to Indiana (east and west.)
How do I know? The strongest August F5 Tornado in the country happened a week after I was born. The Plainfield Tornado of 28 August 1990 with winds estimated up to 320 mph but usually said between 305 and 310 based on what source you go to. The cloud that spun it went directly over me in Aurora, Illinois.
I will never go by the Enhanced Fujita Scale.
Wow. Every single point is wrong, yikes
@brookiiecookie199 try to break it down then? I bet you didn't live in Aurora, Illinois in August of 1990.
Yeah this is wrong. Only thing I can agree is the ef scale is wrong.I’m sorry just cause you were a newborn during a tornado doesn’t mean yk science
I lived through 2 different ef5s my family 3 but I’m not over here saying that means ik everything😭😭
Anyways no tornado alley doesn’t go into the dakotas. Other places then tornado alley have tornados just not as common. The only one your right about is Nebraska is apart of the alley , but Indiana ain’t, if anything their Dixie alley.
Also I’m sorry but the strongest ef5 wasn’t even the Plainfield tornado, Plainfield had 321 mph ,it was the Moore bridge creek Oklahoma tornado with 324 mph winds, strongest winds recorded , ever
Plainfield was only the strongest in that state . And the Moore bridge creek only had the strongest winds the strongest was the tri state tornado.
(Also I found it funny “have you lived through 1999” you said you were a week old? You didn’t even remember the tornado, as another ef5 survivor , no other survivor thinks this way your on your ownnn😭😭)
This was awesome! Thanks! Love the tornado earrings too!
As a Floridian in tampa bay. Can confirm supercharged hurricane season.
2:18 the rotation of tornados and winds in gemeral is actually caused by the earth's rotation around it's own axis.
Really nice! But also as a reminder, water is does not conduct electricity, you do, water just has a very low level of resistance aka electricity can move through it more freely.
Yes and no, while a conductor and a resistor are clearly stated as differing things, all or most materials are affected by strong enough electromagnetic forces, and to say that water just has a very low level of resistance basically means it, like many other things, can be subject to dielectric breakdown.
I'm probably being a bit pedantic but it becomes a slippery slope with electricity.
Water itself is not much of a conductor, but the ionic constituents make it so.
** _Has education in weather, still watched every second of this because I love weather_ **
Excellent video and very informative. Well done! I’ll be on the lookout for her weather coverage!
I'm not even that interested in weather and still found this really interesting. Thanks!
Wild watching this after Hurricane Helene and Milton lol
18:59 here in Germany we are thought to count 3 seconds after a lightning to know the thunderstorm is 1km out.
This was a super interesting video and I've learned a new word I'd never heard before "Nor'easter".
Fun fact, the speed of light and the speed of sound are the same in every country
@@derrickstorm6976yeah, but the measurements used aren’t the same
A wonderful expert and a lot of fascinating info! thank you!
Less than 2 seconds in and I took it as "I'm meteorologist, Storm Chaser" like it was job + name. lol
this vid excellent. the explanation on partly-cloudy was AWESOME!!!
LOVED this episode! Bring her back for round 2!
A simpler way to answer the question of how we predict weather is that we can track and measure what’s happening over a vast area of land and find patterns that allow us to build models that combine previously observed patterns with current conditions.
That's what she said.
Just saw the movie. Really liked it. Started a bit slow, but got better as it went. Some of the things they did, I don’t believe are possible at this time. For example, triangulating a tornado that is constantly moving and changing. The movie (and the previous movie) made it seem like you see tornados every time you chase.
Really good explanations. Learned a lot in a short video. 😎👍
Love the tornado earrings!!!
I wish I could have sent in a question. The day this was uploaded, it had been storming outside all day where I live, but eventually the strong storms passed and all that was left was heavy rain, except for a single, extremely loud crack of thunder which startled me. I've heard of super bolts, and I wonder if that was one of them.
tornado alley also includes Nebraska and Iowa, not just kansas, oklahoma and texas
"Tornadoes can cross water."
Yes, because whoever came up with the myth that tornadoes can't cross water clearly was mixing up a tornado with a vampire.
17:42 uhmm isn't that where the Fujiwara effect comes into play when two storm systems merge?
I've watched plenty of secondary vortices around main tornadoes. Eventually they become assimilated. I dont believe it makes the main vortex stronger, but they do spawn nearby and merge regularly.
My dad told me that when he was a teen, he and his friends would try chasing tornadoes. Apparently that was an Oklahoma past time back in the day lol
wow. entertaining and informative.. thank you
Brilliant, thanks!
So many of these questions had indignation and ignorance and it hurt my heart.
Very informational
thanks
0:23 tornado alley and Dixie alley are two different things
13:20 another thing that is definantly unrealistic is the tornado where they are under a bridge and i think they said it was an Ef3 maybe a 2 idk but anyways it literally demolished a barn in a second while for the Ef5 it took a couple second.... erm logic
I don’t mind that meteorologists can’t predict weather very far ahead. I mind that so many apps and news organizations pretend that they can. I have learned to take the long-range forecast as an expected trend that may change tomorrow. But they never seem to include a disclaimer right up front about the data they offer us.
I'm feeling so validated for waiting out after a thunderstorm seems to end before going out
Although it does end up sometimes in needing to pause/stop the errands because Thunderstorm Part II is rolling in 😅