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06-09-2011, 02:16 AM | #1 |
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9 June, 2011: Tornado track
The brown streak across this image is the track of the recent Massachusetts tornado. I saw this at new scientist. The picture is credited thus: (Image: NASA Earth Observatory/Jesse Allen/USGS, using Landsat 5 data provided by Julia Barsi of the Landsat Project Science Office). I'm sure this wasn't the only brown streak this tornado caused, but it is probably the biggest.
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06-09-2011, 04:45 AM | #2 | |
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06-09-2011, 05:39 AM | #3 |
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I find it interesting that people still take the attitude that the odds are so low that they don't do anything - at all - to provide some protection for themselves in their homes.
If I lived in tornado land I'd have a concrete bunker basement with a week's worth of supplies and some nice pipe-births. If storms where present we'd all just bunk out in the shelter. Same thing if I lived in a flood-plane. I'd build my house on a scissors jack. Flood coming? I'd jack that baby up a story or two and split the scene. |
06-09-2011, 07:21 AM | #4 |
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Ahhh, would be nice. I live in a tornado zone but have nowhere to go. If I were really threatened I'd probably run across the road to the sort of ditch...but other than that I just wait it out.
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06-09-2011, 10:31 AM | #5 |
I wonder . . .
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Interesting how it goes pretty much in a straight line. Anyone know why?
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06-09-2011, 10:38 AM | #6 |
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Same amount of land on each side.
(Sorry, was messing with the old goose joke: You know how when geese fly in a V one side is longer than the other? Know why? More geese.) I don't know why. I'm sure it looks straighter because the pic is from so high up...but I think tornadoes just follow a pattern like any weather system. |
06-09-2011, 11:19 AM | #7 |
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Fascinating pic Zen....
I tried looking for a few others. Curious about the path they take ... Found a couple links Here is another ... The link has a couple more images as well. Not sure if I got them all posted properly but ... Lastly this link has a zoom feature. They all seem to go in a very straight line...
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06-09-2011, 11:30 AM | #8 |
I wonder . . .
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Seems like they'd be able to calculate the path and get everyone out of the way. More than just the general warning signal that is sent out.
I wonder what it would look like if they did an overlay of all the tornadoes that have gone through a specific tornado alley.
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06-09-2011, 11:36 AM | #9 | |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about tornadoes, but were afraid to ask:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/#The%20Basics Quote:
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06-09-2011, 11:40 AM | #10 |
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Here's a NY Times article about why they're so much harder to predict ahead of time than other severe weather phenoms:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/us/29tornadoes.html |
06-09-2011, 11:41 AM | #11 |
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That's funny, the damage doesn't look as bad from out here.
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06-09-2011, 11:42 AM | #12 |
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You sly dog, you. |
06-09-2011, 12:20 PM | #13 |
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Oh yes, and just remember, that these tornados, floods, fires (in Texas and Arizona/New Mexico) plus the 90+ temperatures on the east coast have absoulutely, positively beyond a shadow of a doubt has nothing whatsoever to do with climate change. . . . Really.
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06-09-2011, 12:46 PM | #15 |
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Let me help just a leetle:
See, way way up in the sky, and looking towards the planet (we'll call it 'Earth'), a tornado might seem like a fairly straight line. That is to say, even though they bob and weave, from a billion miles away you're just gonna see some squiggles. A 'nado doesn't start in, say, Cincinnati, veer down to south KY, then veer back up to Cleveland...no storm does THAT, not even a 'less sarcastic obviously exaggerated' version of THAT. It's not rocket science, why the lines seem 'straight.' It's barely even meteorological science. |
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