The Weird Reason Tornadoes Are Clumping Together #science #scishow #stem #shorts



You know how they say bad news comes in threes? Well apparently, that’s true for tornadoes, too – and the clusters of twisters aren’t just limited to three, either.

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Sources:
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.aah7393
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/amo_faq.php

Image Sources:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southern_Indiana_tornado.webm
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Severe_Tornado_Outbreak_in_the_Southern_United_States.ogv
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benkelman_NE_tornado_May_26,_2021.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EF3_tornado_near_Nickerson,_Kansas.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amo_timeseries_1856-present.svg

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20 thoughts on “The Weird Reason Tornadoes Are Clumping Together #science #scishow #stem #shorts”

  1. Of course they know why they just don't tell us. Because they're the one causing it. Only lower science people have to figure it out like that actually means something while the more higher ups with high badge clearance know exactly what is happening

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  2. Great, one more thing to add to the biblical apocalypse.

    Funny how both scientists and religious people agree that the apocalypse is coming, but that many religious people reject climate change because it's provable and caused by humans greed (exactly what says causes it in the Bible)

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  3. “They don’t know why it’s happening”
    Also them: climate change is hitting is so hard that if we don’t do anything we’ll live in wasteland forever because it won’t be able to be back to normal

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  4. Tornadoes have been recorded clustering this way for over 100 years. Read some weather HISTORY!!! The "climate crisis" is a political construct, not reality! Don't be a fool, learn the truth!!!!!

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  5. Tornadoes have always "clumped together". They only occur when the atmospheric conditions are just right. Thankfully the necessary conditions are quite rare and don't happen over a large area. So they appear to happen in "clumps." Also, there are multi-vortex tornadoes which may appear to be multiple tornadoes from the ground. There are tornadoes that cycle and are reborn again. (Does this count as one tornado or two?) Don't forget that the atmosphere is a Fluid!
    We also don't know how cyclical this is, since we haven't had satellites for very long.

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  6. If I had a nickel for every time I heard “scientists aren’t sure why…” I’d have a lot of nickels. Like seriously. I’d be able to retire and live off all those nickels.

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